The Canadian Geriatrics Journal (CGJ) is a peer-reviewed publication that is a home for innovative aging research of a high quality aimed at improving the health and the care provided to older persons residing in Canada and outside our borders. The CGJ is targeted to family physicians with training or an interest in the care of older persons, specialists in geriatric medicine, geriatric psychiatrists, and members of other health disciplines with a focus on gerontology. Learn more

The CGJ is indexed/covered in PubMed, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Crossref, ProQuest and EBSCOhost.com Research Databases. Following publication in CGJ, the full text of each article is available immediately and archived in PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

CGJ has been assigned the following journal indicator ratings: Journal Impact Factor 1.2 (Journal Citation Reports 2025, Clarivate), CiteScore 2.7, SCImago Journal Rank 0.588 and Journal Citation Indicator 0.3.

Announcements

New Issue Now Available: Vol. 29 No. 1 (March 2026)

2026-03-04

We are pleased to announce that a new issue of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal (CGJ) is now available online! As always, our content is open access and freely available. To view the Table of Contents and read articles from this issue, please visit:

https://cgjonline.ca/index.php/cgj/issue/view/61

Thank you for your continued interest in the CGJ and we hope that you enjoy reading the contributions from this issue.

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Published: 2026-03-04

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