Women’s Midlife Health is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special theme issue on Disability at Midlife. Guest edited by Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez (University of Michigan) and Elsa Strotmeyer (University of Pittsburgh), this special issue will highlight the conceptualization and burden of disability and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife and late adulthood. We are looking for descriptive papers that document the burden and trajectory of disability as women age through the midlife as well as the relative disparities in disability by sex, race, socio-economic position and geography. We are interested in papers from a range of frameworks and conceptualizations of disability and how they augment scientific understanding of the process, burden and impact of disability during the midlife.
The due date for submissions has been extended. We now request that papers be submitted on a rolling basis. Papers can be submitted at http://womensmidlifehealthjournal.biomedcentral.com/
