Call for papers - Depression, anxiety and mental health in aging

Guest Editors:
Y Selvamani: SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India
Bin Yu: Tianjin University, China

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 8 January 2024

BMC Geriatrics is calling for submissions to our Collection on depression, anxiety and mental health in aging. Mental health is a growing area of concern for older people, with disorders such as depression and anxiety becoming increasingly prevalent, affecting an estimated 1 in 4 older adults. These can result from changes in physical health, bereavement and other events impacting individuals such as alterations in medications, loneliness or retirement. If not addressed, poor mental health may cause lasting harm to older people.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Y Selvamani: SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

Dr. Y Selvamani is currently a faculty of Public Health at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India. His research focuses on life course determinants of health and wellbeing, mental health, quality of aging, measurement issues in mental health and aging and global public health.

Bin Yu: Tianjin University, China

Bin Yu is an Associate Professor in Health Psychology at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Tianjin University. His current research is focused on the association between social isolation, loneliness and health among older adults, effects of social relationship quality on the stress response. His areas of specialization include Health behaviors, Life Style and Health, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Psychophysiology.

About the collection

BMC Geriatrics is calling for submissions to our Collection on depression, anxiety and mental health in aging. Mental health is a growing area of concern for older people, with disorders such as depression and anxiety becoming increasingly prevalent, affecting an estimated 1 in 4 older adults. These can result from changes in physical health, bereavement and other events impacting individuals such as alterations in medications, loneliness or retirement. If not addressed, poor mental health may cause lasting harm to older people.

In support of UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) "To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages", BMC Geriatrics is launching a collection on mental health in aging.

This collection aims to focus on research about mental health in older people, including depression and depressive symptoms, anxiety and anxiety symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, isolation and loneliness, stigma about mental illness, as well as access to health services to manage these symptoms.

We are interested in qualitative and quantitative evidence pertaining to a wide variety of aspects, with key topics including, but not limited to:

Mood and anxiety disorders and the symptoms of these conditions in older people
Age related changes in previously diagnosed disorders
Interaction of physical and mental health
Access to mental health services
Older adults’ experiences as mental health care service users

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Depression, anxiety and mental health in aging" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.