Manuscript Central ID: AA- Corresponding Author name: Authorship Criteria To fulfil all of the criteria for authorship, every author of the manuscript must have made substantial contributions to ALL of the following aspects of the work: Conception and planning of the work that led to the manuscript or acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data, or both; Drafting and/or critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content; Approval of the final submitted version of the manuscript. All authors fulfil ALL of the above criteria for authorship. Declaration of Consent to Publication All contributing authors must give signed consent for publication of the manuscript by Age and Ageing journal. All authors consent for the final accepted version of the manuscript to be considered for publication in Age and Ageing journal. Duplicate Publishing Submissions to Age and Ageing journal should not have been previously published (except as an abstract, however details should be provided below). If substantial parts of the content have been published elsewhere the authors must declare this here. Does this manuscript report work that has already been reported in large part in a published article, or is contained in or closely related to another paper that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere? No Yes. Please give details below: Declaration of Conflicts of Interest We would not wish you or your co-authors to be embarrassed if any undeclared conflicts of interest were to emerge after publication. Contributors must therefore declare any commercial interests, such as directorships, share-holdings, consultancies, honoraria, grants, fees, gifts or travel expenses received from organisations whose product is used in a study or referred to in your article. Financial or personal interests in competing companies should also be stated.
Manuscript Central ID: AA- Corresponding Author name: Authorship Criteria To fulfil all of the criteria for authorship, every author of the manuscript must have made substantial contributions to ALL of the following aspects of the work: Conception and planning of the work that led to the manuscript or acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data, or both; Drafting and/or critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content; Approval of the final submitted version of the manuscript. All authors fulfil ALL of the above criteria for authorship. Declaration of Consent to Publication All contributing authors must give signed consent for publication of the manuscript by Age and Ageing journal. All authors consent for the final accepted version of the manuscript to be considered for publication in Age and Ageing journal. Duplicate Publishing Submissions to Age and Ageing journal should not have been previously published (except as an abstract, however details should be provided below). If substantial parts of the content have been published elsewhere the authors must declare this here. Does this manuscript report work that has already been reported in large part in a published article, or is contained in or closely related to another paper that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere? No Yes. Please give details below: Declaration of Conflicts of Interest We would not wish you or your co-authors to be embarrassed if any undeclared conflicts of interest were to emerge after publication. Contributors must therefore declare any commercial interests, such as directorships, share-holdings, consultancies, honoraria, grants, fees, gifts or travel expenses received from organisations whose product is used in a study or referred to in your article. Financial or personal interests in competing companies should also be stated.
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