(ISSN 2638-1311)
OBM Geriatrics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.
Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.
Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.
Papers must be clear and concise, but detailed data is strongly encouraged. The journal publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.
Special Issue
Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults: Exercise, Equanimity, and Empowerment
Submission Deadline: February 15, 2027 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Carmelle Peisah, MB.BS (Hons), MD
- Clinical Professor. School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Adjunct Professor. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Special Instructor. Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Founder-President. Capacity Australia, Sydney, Australia
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Research Interests: Human rights; capacity; ethics; ageing and mental health; geriatric psychiatry; elder abuse; dementia management; doctor health and welfare; family therapy; end-of-life care
About This Topic
The world is rapidly ageing, with persons aged 60 and over projected to reach 1.4 billion by 2030. However, with increased life expectancy, we need to ensure quality of life, right up to the end of life, meaning that quality of dying is as important as quality of living. As we get older, we face a number of biopsychosocial challenges ranging from frailty, mental illness and neurodegenerative disease such as dementia, to loss and loneliness. We also face systemic and macro challenges including ageism and mentalism, as well as inconsistent access to healthcare that adequately meets the needs of older persons. At the same time, there has been considerable effort in the healthcare community to meet these challenges. In this issue, papers explore the myriad of approaches in promoting mental health and wellbeing among older persons, to enhance mood, acceptance and equanimity, mobilization, socialization, dignity and empowerment.
Keywords
Health promotion; older persons; empowerment; wellbeing; exercise
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (geriatrics@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.
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