Call for Papers for a Special Issue

This call for papers is for the International Journal of Aging and Human Development (Special IssueOn Improving the quality of Life for Elders). The Journal invites readers to submit papers dealing with both theoretical and conceptual issues and with interventions, treatments, tools, and practices aimed at improving the quality of life for elders and for an aging society. The goal of the special issue is to achieve an appropriate balance between projections of conceptual and theoretical models for improving the quality of life for an aging society, and their applications in research. Research papers dealing with program evaluations, intervention and treatment studies, scales and test developments for measuring and assessing quality of life, and outcome studies investigating the effects of environmental change on aging individuals are among the areas of interest for the special issue. Also of interest would be cross-cultural comparison studies and studies addressing quality of life concerns for ethnic minority groups of elders. Investigations using either quantitative or qualitative methodology or idiographic or nomothetic approaches are equally appropriate. Please address inquiries or letters of intent (300 to 500 word abstract) to P.S. Fry, Ph.D., Research Professor, Trinity Western University, 7600 Glover Road, Langley, B.C. V2Y 1Y1. Fax: 250 360 1065; E-mail FRY@TWU.CA

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