This month we are very pleased to make several major announcements concerning Geriatrics & Aging for the year 2002. Over the past year, we have invested a great deal of time and energy in assessing your needs and in providing you with information that is of practical importance to your day-to-day practice. In the same vein, we have been working towards establishing affiliations with recognized programs and institutions in order to ensure that we continue to publish high quality educational material. We are pleased to announce that Geriatrics & Aging is now working with the Regional Geriatric Programs of Ontario to provide you with current information on best-practice medicine and on important programs and services for the elderly.
The RGPs were established in the mid-80s, as part of a strategic plan to provide a comprehensive system of health services for the elderly. The RGPs are set up as a network of independently operating programs that exist at each of the five academic health science centres in Ontario: Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and London. They provide a variety of services ranging from consultation and education to the development of treatment and rehabilitation programs. We are very pleased to have been chosen as a vehicle for disseminating information for the RGPs and look forward to working closely together. Keep your eyes open for the RGPs' supplements that will appear regularly in 2002. For further information on the Regional Geriatric Programs, please visit their website at www.rgps.on.ca.
Secondly, I would like to welcome some new members to the Geriatrics & Aging team. We are delighted to announce the addition of three new physicians to our advisory board: Dr. Christopher MacKnight (Dalhousie University), Dr. David Gladstone (Sunnybrook and Women's College) and Dr. Wilbert Aronow (Mount Sinai School of Medicine). Drs. MacKnight and Gladstone are rising stars in the fields of dementia and stroke research and we look forward to having them keep us current on exciting developments in these fields. Both have contributed outstanding articles to recent issues of Geriatrics & Aging on the Management of Vascular Dementia (April 2001) and New Frontiers in Stroke Recovery (September 2001), respectively. Dr. Aronow is an internationally renowned geriatric cardiologist with over 400 publications, who joins us from the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. I am sure that all three will be excellent additions to our team.
Our final announcement concerns the format of our publication. Our readership survey, conducted earlier this year, indicated that many of our readers have difficulty archiving information from the publication in its current format. In response to readers' requests and in order to meet the needs of our partners, we are pleased to announce that, as of January 2002, Geriatrics & Aging will be published in a journal format. We are determined to maintain our high production quality, innovative illustrations and dynamic layout, but aim to combine this with a format that will be more reader-friendly. We hope that you will support us in our efforts and we look forward to receiving feedback. Don't miss our 'flagship issue' in the mail in early February.
