A Life Course Perspective on Achieving Healthy Aging
Special Issue Editors
Interests: healthy longevity; life course approach; cognitive health in late life; behavioral interventions for cognitive impairment; mental health; older migrants; disability prevention
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Achieving healthy aging is a multifaceted challenge that demands an understanding of how biological, behavioral, social, and environmental factors accumulate and interact across the life course. The life course perspective offers a powerful lens to examine how early-life exposures, mid-life transitions, and later-life contexts shape health trajectories in old age. It recognizes that disparities in health among older adults often reflect cumulative advantages or disadvantages stemming from socioeconomic position, migration history, gender, education, occupation, and access to health services throughout life.
This Special Issue invites contributions that adopt a life course approach to explore determinants and interventions related to healthy aging. We welcome empirical studies, methodological innovations, and policy analyses across disciplines, including public health, epidemiology, sociology, demography, and health services research. Topics may include the impact of early-life conditions on later-life health, intergenerational influences, transitions in care needs, and preventive strategies to promote wellbeing across aging populations.
By advancing life course-informed evidence and frameworks, this Special Issue aims to inform more equitable, timely, and effective health and social policies that support healthy aging for all.
Dr. Yanan Luo
Guest Editor
Dr. Guogui Huang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- life course perspective
- healthy aging
- social determinants of health
- healthy aging policy
- health equity
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