Journal of Aging and Health
The Journal of Aging and Health explores the complex and dynamic relationship between gerontology and health. You know health is one of the fast-growing areas in the field of gerontology. Look to the Journal of Aging and Health to be your primary source for the most current research findings and scholarly exchange available. Read below to see how the comprehensive coverage of the Journal of Aging and Health can benefit you.
Unique Focus
The Journal of Aging and Health covers a wide range of topics guaranteeing that you will receive material you can use. Recent topics have included articles on:
- Active life expectancy
- Diet/nutrition
- Disease prevention
- Ethics in health care
- Health behaviors and beliefs
- Health service utilization
- Longevity and mortality
- Long-term care
- Mental health
- Social support and health
- The recovery process
- Alcoholism
- Suicide
Interdisciplinary Perspective
In each issue of the Journal of Aging and Health, respected scholars present views and perspectives from a wide variety of disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that you are receiving the most balanced and comprehensive scholarship available. Recent articles spanning many fields include:
- Allied Health
- Psychology
- Behavioral Science
- Public Health
- Demography
- Social Policy
- Epidemiology
- Social Services
- Health Services Research
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Nursing
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Journal of Aging and Health is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of research findings and scholarly exchange in the area of aging and health. Manuscripts are sought that deal with social and behavioral factors related to health and aging. Disciplines represented include the behavioral and social sciences, public health, epidemiology, demography, health services research, nursing, social work, medicine, and related disciplines. Although preference is given to manuscripts presenting the findings of original research, review and methodological pieces will also be considered.
| Dr. Kyriakos S. Markides | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Brian Downer, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Brian Downer, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Neda Agahi, PhD | Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Soham Al Snih, MD, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Ross Andell, PhD | Arizona State University, USA |
| Flavia C. D. Andrade, PhD | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Ronald J. Angel, PhD | University of Texas - Austin, USA |
| Jacques Baillargeon, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Jane Banaszak-Holl, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Lisa L. Barnes, PhD | Rush University Medical Center, USA |
| Alex Bierman, PhD | University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Dan Blazer, MD, PhD | Duke University, USA |
| Anda Botoseneanu, MD, PhD | University of Michigan, USA |
| Penny Brennan, PhD | University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Robyn L. Brown, PhD | University of Kentucky, USA |
| Jeffrey A. Burr, PhD | Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA |
| Carmen Castaneda-Sceppa | Northeastern University, USA |
| Dan Clark, PhD | Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA |
| Philippa Clark, PhD | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| Olivio Clay, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Lindy Clemson, PhD | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Michael Crowe | University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Dorly Deeg, PhD | VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Kerstin Gerst Emerson, PhD | University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA |
| Qiushi Feng, PhD | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Hector Gonzales, PhD | University of California at San Diego, USA |
| Emily Grundy, PhD, FBA | University of Essex, UK |
| Danan Gu, PhD | United Nations, Population Division, USA |
| Jack Guralnik, MD, PhD | University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA |
| Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, PhD, RPsych | University of Regina, Canada |
| Terrence Hill, PhD | Department of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Ellen Idler, PhD | Emory University, USA |
| Sapna Kaul, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Jessica Kelley-Moore, PhD | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| Giyeon Kim, PhD | Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea |
| Annemarie Koster, PhD | University of Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Kenzie Latham-Mintas | Department of Sociology, IUPUI, USA |
| Jersey Liang, PhD | University of Michigan, School of Public Health, USA |
| Rahul Malhotra, MBBS, MD, MPH | Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore |
| David X. Marquez, PhD, FACSM | University of Illinois, Chicago, USA |
| Neil Mehta, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA |
| Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, PhD | University of Michigan, USA |
| Malena Monteverde, PhD | Conicet, Buenos Aries, Argentina |
| Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH | University of California at San Diego, USA |
| Miriam Mutambutzi, PhD | Syracuse University, USA |
| Kushang V. Patel, PhD, MPH | University of Washington, USA |
| M. Kristen Peek, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston |
| Ana Quinones, PhD | Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA |
| Taina Rantanen, PhD | University of Jyvasklya, Finland |
| Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP | University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, USA |
| Carlos Reyes-Ortiz, MD, PhD | Florida A&M University, USA |
| Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, PhD | Brown University, Providence, USA |
| Jean-Marie Robine, PhD | French National Institute of Medical Research (INSERM), Montpellier, France |
| Sunshine Rote, PhD | University of Louisville, USA |
| David L. Roth, PhD | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Yasuhiko Saito, PhD | Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan |
| Jennifer Salinas, PhD | Texas Tech University Health Science Center, El Paso, USA |
| Catherine Sarkisian, MD | UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine |
| Markus Schafer, PhD | Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Enid Schatz, PhD | University of Missouri, Columbia, USA |
| Benjamin Shaw, PhD | Community Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Tetyana Shippe, PhD | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Abla Sibai, PhD | American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| Eleanor Simonsick, PhD | National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, USA |
| Christine Stephens, PhD | Massey University, New Zealand |
| Corinna Trujillo Tanner PhD, RN | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Aloen Townsend, PhD | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Cassio M. Turra, PhD | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Robert B. Wallace, MD | University of Iowa, USA |
| Dr. Ming Wen | The University of Hong Kong, China |
| Jessica S. West, PhD, MPH | Duke University School of Medicine, USA |
| Rebeca Wong, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston |
| Hanzhang Xu, PhD, RN | Duke University School of Medicine, USA |
| Anna Zajacova, PhD | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Steven H. Zarit, PhD | The Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Zachary Zimmer, PhD | Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada |
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Manuscripts must be submitted for review via the Journal of Aging and Health SAGE Track website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jah. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Double space all manuscripts, including references, notes, abstracts, quotations, and tables, on 8 1/2 × 11 paper. The title page should be a separate document and include all authors’ names and affiliations and highest professional degrees, the corresponding author’s address and telephone number, and a brief running headline. Place acknowledgments in a separate document under the heading AUTHOR’S NOTE. The title page should be followed by a structured abstract of 100 to 150 words that includes the following subheadings: Objectives, Methods, Results, and Discussion. On the abstract page include 3 to 5 words or short phrases for indexing purposes.The abstract page as well as the first page of the text should include the manuscript’s title without the authors’ names to facilitate blind review. Tables and references should follow APA style and be double-spaced throughout. Ordinarily manuscripts will not exceed 30 pages (double-spaced), including tables, figures, and references. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to supply camera-ready figures. Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult the editor.
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to the payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self/author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
Authorship
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
(i) made a substantial contribution to the concept and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data,
(ii) drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
(iii) approved the version to be published.
Please refer to the ICMJE Authorship guidelines at
Acknowledgments
Any acknowledgements should appear first at the end of your article prior to your Declaration of Conflicting Interests (if applicable), any notes and your References.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an ‘Acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.
Funding
To comply with the guidance for Research Funders, Authors and Publishers issued by the Research Information Network (RIN), JAH additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit Funding Acknowledgements on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding or state in your acknowledgments that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
It is the policy of JAH to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please include any declaration at the end of your manuscript after any acknowledgements and prior to the references, under a heading ‘Conflict of interests’. If no declaration is made the following will be printed under this heading in your article: ‘None declared’. Alternatively, you may wish to state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
When making a declaration the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial relationship that all authors of the article has with any sponsoring organization and the for-profit interests the organization represents, and with any for-profit product discussed or implied in the text of the article.
Any commercial or financial involvements that might represent an appearance of a conflict of interest need to be additionally disclosed in the covering letter accompanying your article to assist the Editor in evaluating whether sufficient disclosure has been made within the Declaration of Conflicting Interests provided in the article.
For more information please visit the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Research Ethics
All papers reporting animal and human studies must include whether written consent was obtained from the local Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee and an Ethics Committee reference number.
We accept manuscripts that report human and/or animal studies for publication only if it is made clear that investigations were carried out to a high ethical standard. Studies in humans which might be interpreted as experimental (e.g. controlled trials) should conform to the Declaration of Helsinki http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html and typescripts must include a statement that the research protocol was approved by the appropriate ethical committee. In line with the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, revised Hong Kong 1989, we encourage authors to register their clinical trials (at http://clinicaltrials.gov or other suitable databases identified by the ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/publishing_10register.html). If your trial has been registered, please state this on the Title Page. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate on the Title Page which guideline/law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Patient Consent
Authors are required to ensure the following guidelines are followed, as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.
Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the submitted article.
Contributor's Publishing Agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive license agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
JAH and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of articles published in the journal. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked using duplication-checking software. Where an article is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article (removing it from the journal); taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author’s institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; banning the author from publication in the journal or all SAGE journals, or appropriate legal action.
Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Authors who would like to refine the use of English in their manuscripts might consider using the services of a professional English-language editing company. We highlight some of these companies at http://www.sagepub.com/journalgateway/engLang.htm.
Please be aware that SAGE has no affiliation with these companies and makes no endorsement of them. An author's use of these services in no way guarantees that his or her submission will ultimately be accepted. Any arrangement an author enters into will be exclusively between the author and the particular company, and any costs incurred are the sole responsibility of the author.
ORCID
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE has become a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one.