Bridges and boundaries: humanities and arts enhance gerontology.

The Gerontologist 142 With this issue, we are pleased to announce The Gerontologist’s explicit interest in promoting scholarship on aging, humanities, and the arts as an important thread in the fabric of the study of aging. We encourage authors to develop and submit manuscripts in all categories (research articles, forum, practice concepts and policy analysis, and brief reports) described in the Instructions to Authors. All submissions will be subject to the same standards of excellence and policies of peer review currently used by the journal. To ensure disciplinary competence in reviewing and editing these manuscripts, H. Q. Kivnick, PhD, has been appointed as Editor, Humanities and Arts. She will oversee all editorial decisions regarding these manuscripts. Additionally, five scholars with diverse experience and expertise across the humanities and arts have joined our editorial board, enriching the journal’s ability to review, edit, and make accessible manuscripts in these two broad realms. We will consider theoretical and research papers that challenge, provoke, and excite thinking about the experience of aging. Humanities and arts scholars are concerned with human struggle and success; their research focuses on meaning and interconnection, not on prediction or explanation as does empirical research. Disciplinary approaches from the classics, fine/ performing arts, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, history, theology, philosophy, and more will be welcome in the exploration of aging as it is portrayed, understood, and/or experienced.