Aging is a global issue, and Taiwan has already crossed the threshold as an aged society. The COVID pandemic has greatly impacted our daily lives and brought us into a new "normal" in everyday life. During this pandemic, many new conditions need to be overcome as challenges to good health and well-being. The critical contribution of the nursing profession to successful aging is being increasingly recognized. The articles in this issue of The Journal of Nursing Research address various crucial aspects of aged societies and offer novel knowledge that may be applied in the real world.

Three articles in this issue discuss topics that are of critical concern to older adults, including quality of life and associated factors in older adults with heart failure, clinical decision path for identifying recurrent falls in late middle-aged and older patients with chronic schizophrenia, and the effects of a social participation app on seniors.

The effects of multimorbidity, living alone, and secondary behaviors on quality of life is of particular concern to older adults. The article "Effects of living alone and sedentary behavior on the quality of life of patients with multimorbidity: A secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data obtained among the national community database" examines these issues.

Fertility is a factor intimately related to aged societies, and women with pregnancy is an important and active topic of study. The article "Effects of a case management program for women with pregnancy-induced hypertension" examines this topic.

Nursing workforce is a key determiner of healthcare outcomes. The two articles on nursing professionalism in this article include "The current status of administrative dispositions of nurses: A nationwide survey in South Korea" and "Identifying and ranking the factors affecting the choice of nursing discipline among nursing students in Iran: A Fuzzy Hierarchical Analysis".