谈起老年期刊的宗旨和特征，十有九人会说，无非是一个“老”字。这话似乎也不无道理。期刊的性质是“老”字号，刊名上大多都带着个“老”字，如《中国老年》、《老人天地》、《山西老年》等；有的刊名中虽然不见“老”字，但也是“晚霞”、“晚晴”、“夕阳”、“金秋”之类 Talking about the purpose and characteristics of the geriatric journals, nine out of ten people would say nothing more than an “old” word. It does not seem unreasonable. The nature of periodicals is “old”, most of them carry an “old” character, such as “Chinese elderly”, “elderly world”, “elderly in Shanxi”, etc; , But also “sunset”, “late Qing”, “sunset”, “autumn” and the like