Journal of Aging and Long Term Care

the major goal of the journal of aging and long term care (jaltc) is to advance the scholarly contributions that address the theoretical, clinical and practical issues related to aging and long-term care. the jaltc, while making efforts to create elderly care services at the best quality available that are more humane, that pay special attention to people’s dignity, aims –from the perspective of the whole aging process- to discuss social care insurance as a human right, to contribute elderly care to be transformed into an interdisciplinary field, to integrate elderly care services and gerontological concepts and to create more effective collaboration between them, to enhance the quality of elderly care services and the quality of life of caregivers from medical, psychological and sociological perspectives, to highlighten the cultural factors in elderly care, to increase the potential of formal and informal care services, to provide wide and reachable gerontological education and traini