Biological aging and translational geroscience
Cellular and molecular pathways, biomarkers, immune and metabolic aging, and translational studies that connect a defined aging question to later-life health, function, or care.
JARH / Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare (JARH) is an interdisciplinary journal for research that makes aging central: from biological mechanisms and clinical care to cognition, caregiving, services, and policy. The journal considers work that advances health, functional ability, participation, quality of life, or the systems that support people as they age.
Use this page to judge fit. Before submitting, check the author instructions and current article-processing information.
ISSN 2474-7785 · DOI prefix 10.14302/issn.2474-7785 · CC BY 4.0 open access
- Biology and translationMechanisms and translational questions
- Health and functionClinical care, rehabilitation, and outcomes
- Mind and participationCognition, mental health, and social connection
- Care and supportCaregiving, long-term care, and communities
- Services and policyEquity, delivery, and systems change
The fit in one view
What makes a manuscript right for JARH
A manuscript is a strong fit when it asks a clear aging question and explains why the answer matters. That question may concern biological processes, health conditions, functional ability, care relationships, social and physical environments, or the systems that shape later-life health.
JARH welcomes work on prevention, adaptation, participation, resilience, quality of life, and the diverse circumstances in which people grow older. Aging is not treated only as decline or dependency.
Research themes
Research questions JARH considers
These themes are guideposts, not a keyword checklist. A submission should state the specific aging question and the contribution its evidence makes.
Geriatric care, health, and functional ability
Multimorbidity, medicines use, frailty, falls, mobility, rehabilitation, recovery, and clinical care that supports health and function in later life.
Cognitive, mental, and social health
Cognition, dementia and neurodegeneration, mental health, social connection, psychosocial research, and care interventions relevant to older adults and the people who support them.
Healthy aging, prevention, and the life course
Prevention, longevity, and life-course research with an explicit aging connection, including social determinants, inequities, and environments that shape functional ability.
Caregiving, services, and policy
Care transitions, caregivers, workforce, primary, community, and residential care, age-friendly services, financing, and policy affecting access, quality, or outcomes.
Methods, implementation, and translation
Measurement and validation, implementation science, mixed methods, service evaluation, policy analysis, and work that moves biological, clinical, or systems evidence into practice.
Evidence and contribution
Evidence that can answer an aging question
JARH considers rigorous work from clinical, laboratory, population, behavioural, social, health-services, policy, implementation, and translational perspectives when the aging connection is explicit.
Research approaches
- Clinical studies, including trials, cohorts, and observational research
- Laboratory and translational studies with a defined aging question
- Epidemiological, public-health, behavioural, social, and qualitative research
- Health-services, policy, implementation, and mixed-methods research
Article types
- Original research
- Reviews and evidence syntheses
- Methods papers
- Short communications
- Policy-focused perspectives
Author decision guide
Check the fit before you submit
Use this guide to decide whether JARH is the right venue and to make the manuscript’s aging contribution clear from the abstract onward.
Strong fit
The aging question, population, setting, or care system is central, and the work explains what its findings mean for research, care, services, policy, or quality of life.
Possible fit
Interdisciplinary work may fit when the manuscript makes its aging connection explicit and explains why that connection matters in the abstract and cover letter.
Needs a clearer case
Work that mentions age only as a background variable, without an aging question or relevant outcome, needs a clearer rationale before it can be considered for JARH.
- Is aging, a later-life population, or an aging-care system central to the question?
- Does the study explain what its findings mean for health, function, participation, quality of life, care, services, or policy?
- Are the design, measures, and reporting appropriate for that question?
- Do the abstract and cover letter make the aging connection clear to an interdisciplinary readership?
Usually outside scope or insufficiently connected
These examples do not judge a study’s quality. They describe work that generally needs a stronger, explicit aging connection for JARH to assess its fit.
- Biomedical or clinical research in which aging, later life, or aging-care relevance is not defined
- Technical work without a stated aging question or a plausible connection to aging outcomes
- Health, policy, or service research that does not address older adults, caregivers, or aging-care systems
Respectful and useful evidence
Research should reflect the diversity of later life
JARH values clear, person-centred language and research that recognises the diversity of older adults, their health, abilities, circumstances, preferences, communities, and support networks. Studies from varied geographic, cultural, and resource settings are welcome when their context and implications are clearly described.
Before submission
Make the aging contribution easy to assess
Describe the study population, setting, measures, and analytic approach clearly. Explain how the findings relate to aging, later-life health, function, care, or policy. Where relevant, use recognised reporting guidance and the information requested in the journal’s author instructions and editorial policies.
Use the journal’s published guidance for editorial, ethics, reporting, licensing, and article-processing information rather than relying on a scope statement alone.
Ready to submit a clearly scoped manuscript?
If JARH is the right venue, review the author instructions and editorial policies, then submit when the study’s aging relevance and contribution are clear.
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