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Special Issue on Elderly Care – Status, Challenges and Opportunities – Call for Papers

Published on July 16, 2024

Details

The Special Issue is the outcome of the First International Conference on “Care for Older Adults Amidst COVID-19” organized by The International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), Trivandrum, Kerala, India held during 19-20 December 2022. From the Conference, the articles addressing the issues and challenges in the elderly care viz., physical, mental, socio-economic aspects, and with the care givers’ problems have been considered.

This special issue identifies the status of care and support issues, challenges of the elderly and the trends in the elderly care in the pandemic and the post pandemic period. It broadly contributes to the elderly care issues to the existing literature into five broad areas: physical health care and elder issues, psychological health care and elder issues, elderly issues relevant to employment, migration and the left behind elderly care issues and finally trends in elderly health care.

Important Dates:

• Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2024

• Publication date: April 2025