Call for papers - Sleep disorders in older adults

Guest Editors

Kiran Kumar Guruswamy Ravindran, PhD, University of Surrey, UK
Junxin Li, PhD, RN, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 23 April 2025

BMC Geriatrics is inviting submissions to our Collection on Sleep disorders in older adults.

This Collection aims to enhance our understanding of sleep disorders and develop evidence-based strategies for their diagnosis, treatment, and management.
Sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm disorders, are thought to increase with aging, becoming a highly prevalent issue amongst older adults. Sleep disorders and disturbances can severely impact overall health and quality of life, increasing the risk of falls, cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, and other adverse health outcomes. Despite their prevalence and impact, these conditions in older adults are often underdiagnosed and undertreated.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Kiran Kumar Guruswamy Ravindran, PhD, University of Surrey, UK

Kiran Kumar Guruswamy Ravindran is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey, and UK DRI Care Research & Technology Centre at Imperial College London and University of Surrey, Guildford. His current research primarily revolves around understanding the influence of comorbidities on sleep physiology and evaluation of consumer sleep technologies (CST) for monitoring sleep in healthy older adults and people living with dementia (PLWD). Through his work, Kiran Kumar Guruswamy Ravindran hopes to create scalable solutions to real-world problems that currently hinder round-the-clock monitoring of sleep and circadian function.

Junxin Li, PhD, RN, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Junxin Li works to promote health and well-being of older adults, particularly by understanding how physical activity and sleep affect cognitive function. Research interests include the associations between daytime activities, sleep, and cognitive function; the biological mechanisms for these associations; the short- and long-term impacts of daytime napping on cognitive functions; and testing individually tailored interventions implementing mHealth technology to promote healthy aging.

About the Collection

BMC Geriatrics is inviting submissions to our Collection on Sleep disorders in older adults.

Sleep disorders, including insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm disorders, are thought to increase with aging; becoming a highly prevalent issue amongst older adults. Sleep disorders and disturbances can severely impact overall health and quality of life, increasing the risk of falls, cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, and other adverse health outcomes. Despite their prevalence and impact, these conditions in older adults are often underdiagnosed and undertreated. This Collection aims to explore various aspects of sleep disorders in older populations covering topics such as:

Clinical implications, including effects on cognitive function, cardiovascular health, and overall quality of life
Potential links between sleep disorders and physical and mental health
Evidence-based treatment and management strategies, such as pharmacological interventions, behavioral therapies, and lifestyle modifications
Health disparities in the prevalence, diagnosis, and management of sleep disorders among older adults from different socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities, and geographic regions
Environmental factors associated with sleep disorders

This Collection aims to enhance our understanding of sleep disorders and develop evidence-based strategies for their diagnosis, treatment, and management.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Sleep disorders in older adults" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.