CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Housing for the Elderly
Announces a Special Issue:
Environmental Gerontology: What Now?
Special Issue Editors: Rick J. Scheidt, Ph.D. and Benyamin Schwarz, Ph.D.
Environmental Gerontology or the research on aging and environment evolved during the late 1960s when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and the 1980s and remains viable and active today on an international scale. However, in recent times we have asked ourselves questions about the viability of the field and its future.
Alan Kay, the American computer scientist taught us that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. Thus this special issue of the
Journal of Housing for the Elderly seeks to explore the current state of the field of Environmental Gerontology and discuss alternative prescriptions for sustaining the health and the future of this discipline. We are looking for manuscripts which can be problem-guided (i.e., new training models in both design and research/science areas), area-guided (i.e. housing, technology, special needs), setting/place guided (i.e., independent housing-assisted living arrangements), special populations guided (i.e., aging in prison environments, aging of individuals with developmental disabilities), or agenda-guided (i.e., survival of the field in varied disciplines; what indicators can be used to gauge the viability of Environmental Gerontology; is the field progressing? If yes, in what sense?)Conceptual articles and research-based papers from disciplines such as psychology, sociology, architecture and other design fields, regional and community planning, geographical gerontology, occupational therapy, social policy and health related fields, and other relevant fields are welcome.
Deadline:
Please submit a
100-500 word abstract describing your full-length paper (approximately 4,000-6,000 words). The deadline for abstracts is March 30, 2011 after which abstracts will be selected to be developed as papers for this special issue. Invited papers will be submitted to a peer-review process and will be required to meet the journal’s standards for publication. Final papers will be due in June 2011 and sent for publication in Fall 2011.The
Journal of Housing for the Elderly is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal that has been in circulation since 1983. Sample issues and tables of contents may be viewed at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WJHE.Abstracts should be sent electronically to Rick Scheidt, rscheidt@k-state.edu or Benyamin Schwarz, Schwarzb@missouri.edu
