New developments: Ageing Research Online (ARO)

For over 20 years, the Australasian Journal on Ageing’s objective has been to inform professionals on ageing issues, providing a balance of research papers, opinion articles, professional practice updates, innovations in aged care and book reviews. Since its inception as a modest soft cover in-house production of COTA National Seniors Partnership (formerly Council on the Ageing (Australia)), it has developed in a variety of ways- a more stylish publication, substantially thicker issues, the bringing on board of the partner organisations (Aged and Community Services Australia, the Australian Association of Gerontology, the Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine) and an Associate Partner (Alzheimer’s Australia), the extension of the geographic focus reflected in the name change to the Australasian Journal on Ageing, and the creation of a journal web-site. As we move further into the electronic age, the Journal itself is going to electronic as well as paper-based copy - but more of that in the March edition.