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Journal of Elder Policy

 
 
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Editor in Chief: Eva Kahana, Elderly Care Research Center, Case Western Reserve University
 
Editorial Assistants:   
Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer, MA, Case Western Reserve University
Polina Ermoshkina, MS, MGS, Case Western Reserve University
Timothy Goler, PhD, Norfolk State University
 
Editorial Board Members:
Jacqueline Angel, University of Texas, Austin
Anne Barrett, Florida State University
Naomi R. Cahn, George Washington University
Lin Chen, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ken Covinsky, University of California, San Francisco
Richard H. Fortinsky, University of Connecticut
Terry Hokenstad, Case Western Reserve University
Robert (Bob) Hudson, Boston University
Jeffrey Kahana, Mount Saint Mary College
Nancy Kropf, Georgia State University
Nina Kohn, Syracuse University
Carol Musil, Case Western Reserve University
Holger Pfaff, University of Cologne
Jill Quadagno, Florida State University
Karen A. Roberto, Virginia Tech
Richard Settersten, Oregon State University
Robyn Stone, LeadingAge
Joseph White, Case Western Reserve University
 
Case Western Reserve University Advisory Committee:
Grover C. Gilmore, PhD
Dean Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Professor of Psychology
Brian Gran, PhD
Professor of Sociology and Law
David Hammack, PhD
Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History Emeritus
Sharona Hoffman, JD
Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law; Professor of Bioethics
Diana Morris, PhD
Florence Cellar Associate Professor of Gerontological Nursing, Director Center on Aging and Health
J.B. Silvers, PhD
John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, Professor, Banking and Finance
Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Distinguished University Professor, Gertrude Donnelly Hess, Professor of Oncology Research, Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Sociology
 
Aims and Scope
Aims
The Journal of Elder Policy (JEP) aims to offer a forum for innovative thinking, theorizing, program planning and empirical research relevant to elder policy. We seek to publish informative articles relevant to policies that enhance quality of life and well-being of older adults including the old- old. Why a new interdisciplinary journal about old age and policy? The study of age is thriving as the scientific community works to identify and study the changing circumstances and options in later life among new cohorts of older adults. The welfare of older adults is importantly influenced by social changes, including policy arrangements, impacting both the young and old. We seek to understand factors that shape family supports available to those with needs for medical and social care in late life.  We will apply diverse disciplinary lenses to explore the social forces that shape elder policy and affect what care providers can offer and sustain. 
 
Current policies and service programs to protect the growing old-old population are often inadequate to ensure a good old age. The organization and delivery of medical care poses major challenges to older adults with co-morbid conditions and disabilities. Income inequalities put low SES individuals at greater risks in old age. Strains on policy systems and inadequate resources limit care of the old-old population. But there is also great opportunity at hand as exemplified by technological advances and breakthroughs. We aim to call attention to these issues and propose improved policies that are informed by sound research in the US and around the world.
Scope
Topics to be covered in JEP span both in-depth qualitative research and quantitative studies reporting data with strong policy implications. Both empirical studies and abstract theorizing are welcome. JEP will also publish relevant experiential observations based on auto-ethnographic essays. Attention to policy must be integral to formulation and articulation of problems and must go beyond a brief note at the end of a paper about practice and policy implications. The journal’s inaugural issues will present invited essays from scholars from diverse disciplines who have articulated new ideas and approaches in their research and writing and have shown creative sparks and offered innovations in approaching age and aging with implications for policy. The introductory issues will be followed by soliciting of submissions through a call for papers to our open access journal. All published articles will be peer reviewed.
Submissions are welcome from new investigators as well as emeriti faculty. Papers are sought reflecting contributions of diverse disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, economics, political science, law, medicine, social work, nursing and public health. Experts in these disciplines are included in our Editorial Board. As an international journal we seek to publish cutting edge articles from around the globe.