Age-Friendly Health Through Community Voices
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Age-Friendly Health Through Community Voices
Health Affairs is refreshing its series on Age-Friendly Health with a new cycle of content that will run through June 30, 2028. The goal of the series is to improve health care for older adults by helping guide the policy agenda at the federal, state, and local levels.
We want to include health care-related stories, experiences, and creative work from older adults, as well as from people involved in the health care of older adults at the community level.
We are interested in work that spans the full range of care settings, including primary and specialty care, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home and community-based care. We will consider content related to both paid and unpaid care.
Topics of particular interest include age-friendly care, family caregiving, serious illness and end-of-life care, public programs, workforce, social determinants of health, innovative and emerging care models, technology innovations, long-term services and supports, and rural health. We are especially interested in papers that examine these and other issues through a disparities/equity lens.
Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET
Share your Story: Age-Friendly Health Through Community Voices
Ways You Can Contribute
You can submit up to three pieces of work separately. If you write in a language other than English, please include an English translation.
PERSONAL ESSAY OR COMMENTARY
Write about your health care-related experiences as an older adult or experiences with the health care of older adults in your community. You can submit a commentary on health care-related challenges or share a personal story.
INTERVIEW
If you are working on a unique program or initiative that addresses the health care of older adults, tell us about yourself and why you'd be a good candidate for an interview. We'll ask you questions and turn your responses into a written piece.
POETRY
You can also submit an original poem that explores your health care-related experiences as an older adult or experiences with the health care of older adults in your community. Poetry submissions should be one page, single-spaced, font size 11 or larger.
VISUAL ART
We welcome various forms of creative expression that tell your story, including photography, digital artwork or illustrations, or collages.
Submission Deadline: March 9, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET
Online Information Session: February 18, 2026, 2 p.m. ET
Learn more about Health Affairs, ask questions about the submission process, and meet our editors. Register here for our information session.
Getting Help With Your Submission
We want to make sure that everyone who wants to share their story can. If you want help developing your submission, contact equity@healthaffairs.org by February 23, 2026.
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