Focus and Scope

About the Journal

International Journal of Geriatric Nursing [2581-9062(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2015 that welcomes newly researched original manuscripts, about all aspects of aging. It focuses on the health care of elderly people and its aim is to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. This Journal of Geriatric Nursing includes a wide range of fields in its discipline to create a platform for the authors to make their contribution towards the journal and the editorial board to ensure the quality review of the submitted manuscripts.

Focus and Scope

• Geriatric: aging, developing countries, education, geriatrics, health care, psychology.

• Gerontological Nursing: aging, care, caregiving, carers, dementia, frailty, functional status, geriatric care, geriatric nursing, geriatric syndromes, geriatric, gerontological, nursing older people, person-centered.

• Geriatric Care Management: Geriatric Models of Care, Value–based Healthcare, Healthcare Outcomes, Transitions of Care, Identification of High–risk, High–need Patients, Aging and Society.

• Physical Therapy: Physical therapy, Health, Pain, Musculoskeletal disorder, Diagnosis, Rehabilitation.

• Geriatric Occupational Therapy: rehabilitation, occupational therapy, nursing care, dementia, cognitive decline, depression, apathy, behavioral psychological symptoms, community-dwelling older adults, activities of daily living, intervention study, cohort study, social services for older adults with dementia.

• Geriatric Psychiatry: Rehabilitation, occupational therapy, nursing care, dementia, cognitive decline, depression, apathy, behavioral psychological symptoms, community-dwelling older adults, activities of daily living, intervention study, cohort study, social services for older adults with dementia.

• Geriatric Emergency Medicine: Geriatric emergency medicine, immunology, inflammation, pharmacology.

• Geriatric Internal Medicine: Geriatric biology; Geriatric health services research; Geriatric medicine research; Geriatric neurology, stroke, cognition, and oncology; Geriatric surgery; Geriatric physical functioning, physical health, and activity; Geriatric rehabilitation.

Keywords

• Geriatric
• Gerontological Nursing
• Geriatric Care Management
• Geriatric Physical Therapy
• Geriatric Occupational Therapy

• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Geriatric Emergency Medicine
• Geriatrics or Geriatric Medicine
• Geriatric Internal Medicine
• Clinical Geriatrics