Age and Ageing

Papers
(The H4-Index of Age and Ageing is 44. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies322
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative264
Ageism and COVID-19: what does our society’s response say about us?231
Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines in older people221
COVID-19 in older people: a rapid clinical review161
Commentary: COVID in care homes—challenges and dilemmas in healthcare delivery151
The consistent burden in published estimates of delirium occurrence in medical inpatients over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis study124
The COVID-19 rehabilitation pandemic123
Delirium: a missing piece in the COVID-19 pandemic puzzle112
Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study97
Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study95
Diagnostic accuracy of the 4AT for delirium detection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis95
STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs89
Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities85
What is the prevalence of loneliness amongst older people living in residential and nursing care homes? A systematic review and meta-analysis82
Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus79
The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine79
Abdominal obesity, body mass index and the risk of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis78
Sarcopenia definition, diagnosis and treatment: consensus is growing72
Probable delirium is a presenting symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older adults: a cohort study of 322 hospitalised and 535 community-based older adults72
Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person71
Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on disease recognition and utilisation of healthcare services in the older population in Germany: a cross-sectional study69
Comparing associations between frailty and mortality in hospitalised older adults with or without COVID-19 infection: a retrospective observational study using electronic health records68
Frailty is associated with in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands: the COVID-OLD study68
Resistance exercise as a treatment for sarcopenia: prescription and delivery67
Prevention of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized older patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy: the SENATOR* randomized controlled clinical trial67
Deprescribing in older people approaching end-of-life: development and validation of STOPPFrail version 265
Clinical profile and predictors of in-hospital mortality among older patients hospitalised for COVID-1965
The impact of delirium on outcomes for older adults hospitalised with COVID-1964
Virtual geriatric clinics and the COVID-19 catalyst: a rapid review62
A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale62
Frailty, a multisystem ageing syndrome61
Frailty in the face of COVID-1961
Weight-adjusted waist index reflects fat and muscle mass in the opposite direction in older adults59
Social isolation, loneliness and functional disability in Chinese older women and men: a longitudinal study58
Prevalence, incidence and mortality of delirium in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis57
Poor oral hygiene, oral microorganisms and aspiration pneumonia risk in older people in residential aged care: a systematic review55
Anticholinergic drugs and incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis54
Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis52
‘Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown’: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with early to middle stage dementia49
New horizons in falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative48
Recurrent delirium over 12 months predicts dementia: results of the Delirium and Cognitive Impact in Dementia (DECIDE) study47
Life in lockdown: a telephone survey to investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the lives of older people (≥75 years)45
The prevalence and impact of potentially inappropriate prescribing among older persons in primary care settings: multilevel meta-analysis45
Effects of dance on cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis44
Older patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: observations from the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) years 1–444
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