OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ageing & Society is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding older adults’ use of social technology and the factors influencing use	35
Co-research with older people: a systematic literature review	32
Older age as a time to contribute: a scoping review of generativity in later life	31
New frontiers in international retirement migration	26
Social participation and life satisfaction among older adults: diversity of practices and social inequality in Switzerland	23
Developing a Healthcare Technology Acceptance Model (H-TAM) for Older Adults with Hypertension	22
Beyond the shrinking world: dementia, localisation and neighbourhood	21
Worker-related ageism: a systematic review of empirical research	21
The interrelationship between social connectedness and social engagement and its relation with cognition: a study using SHARE data	20
In the moment with music: an exploration of the embodied and sensory experiences of people living with dementia during improvised music-making	19
Living with dementia under COVID-19 restrictions: coping and support needs among people with dementia and carers from the IDEAL cohort	16
Shelter/housing options, supports and interventions for older people experiencing homelessness	16
Visual ageism and the subtle sexualisation of older celebrities in L'Oréal's advert campaigns: a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis	16
Access to health care among racialised immigrants to Canada in later life: a theoretical and empirical synthesis	15
Caring for a person with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study with family care-givers	15
Listening to the voice of older people: dimensions of loneliness in long-term care facilities	15
Ageing consumers and e-commerce activities	13
Childlessness, geographical proximity and non-family support in 12 European countries	13
Older parents and filial support obligations: a comparison of family solidarity norms between native and immigrant populations in Italy	13
Digital ageing in Europe: a comparative analysis of Italian, Finnish and Swedish national policies on eHealth	13
Downward transfer of support and care: understanding the cultural lag in rural China	12
Accounting for diversity in older adults’ digital inclusion and literacy: the impact of a national intervention	12
Is part of ageism actually ableism?	12
Starting a new life in the South? Swiss, Dutch and Flemish ageing in Morocco: a lifecourse perspective	11
Relational aspects of meaning in life among older people – a group-interview gerontechnology study	11

Can't save or won't save: financial resilience and discretionary retirement saving among British adults in their thirties and forties	11
Stigma and its implications for dementia in South Africa: a multi-stakeholder exploratory study	11
Taking ‘A walk through dementia’: exploring care home practitioners’ experiences of using a virtual reality tool to support dementia awareness	11
Functional difficulties and toileting among older adults in Ghana: evidence from the World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Ghana Wave 1	10
The vulnerable old-old versus the dynamic young-old: recurring types in the representation of older people on television	10
A gradual separation from the world: a qualitative exploration of existential loneliness in old age	10
Providing instrumental support to older parents of multi-child families in China: are there different within-family patterns?	10
Experiences of stigma and discrimination among people living with dementia and family carers in Brazil: qualitative study	10
Reablement in need of theories of ageing: would theories of successful ageing do?	10
Experiences of loneliness among older people living alone. A qualitative study in Quebec (Canada)	10
Whose migration matters? The role of migration in social networks and mental health among rural older adults in China	10
Perceived barriers and contributors to sense of purpose in life in retirement community residents	10
Life satisfaction among older adults in urban China: does gender interact with pensions, social support and self-care ability?	9
Leaving early or staying on? Retirement preferences and motives among older health-care professionals	9
Are social media users more satisfied with their life than non-users? A study on older Italians	9
Impacts of biophilic design on the development of gerotranscendence and the Profile of Mood States during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Linking people and activities through community mobility: an international comparison of the mobility patterns of older drivers and non-drivers	9
Adult children's gender, number and proximity and older parents’ moves to institutions: evidence from Sweden	9
Constructions of older people's identities in Indonesian regional ageing policies: the impacts on micro and macro experiences of ageing	9
Intergenerational equity, equality and reciprocity in economically and politically turbulent times: narratives from across generations	9
‘Losing the illusion of control and predictability of life’: experiences of grief and loss among ageing US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Cognitive decline among European retirees: impact of early retirement, nation-related and personal characteristics	9
Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands	8
Respite, renewal, retirement and tensions: Australian Men's Sheds and the impact on significant others	8
A multiple perspective view of personhood in dementia	8
Learning to deliver LGBT+ aged care: exploring and documenting best practices in professional and vocational education through the World Café method	8
Understanding unmet aged care need and care inequalities among older Australians	8
Dementia in rural settings: a scoping review exploring the personal experiences of people with dementia and their carers	8
Building social capital through sport engagement: evidence for adults aged 50 years and older	8
Effects of a resistance training community programme in older adults	8
Sleep health in later life: interviews exploring experiences, attitudes and behaviours of older people	8
The Active Ageing Index and policy making in Italy	8
Food security and food practices in later life: a new model of vulnerability	7
Characterising older adults’ engagement in age-friendly community initiatives: perspectives from core group leaders in the Northeast United States of America	7
Investigating the lived experience of LGBT+ people with dementia and their care partners: a scoping review	7
Older people's lived experience and the World Health Organization age-friendly policy framework: a critical examination of an age-friendly county programme in Ireland	7
Sexual satisfaction of older adults: testing the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction in the ageing population	7
Social capital in retirement villages: a literature review	7
Keeping the older population and their informal carers healthy and independent using digital technology: a discourse analysis of local policy	7
Transitions in loneliness in later life: the role of social comparisons and coping strategies	7
Friendships, loneliness and psychological wellbeing in older adults: a limit to the benefit of the number of friends	7
The experience of dependence on homecare among people ageing at home	7
Expressions of self-ageism in four European countries: a comparative analysis of predictors across cultural contexts	7
Understanding perspectives of older adults on the role of technology in the wider context of their social relationships	7
The digital inclusion of older people in Spain: technological support services for seniors as predictor	7
‘Why would I want sex now?’ A qualitative study on older women's affirmative narratives on sexual inactivity in later life	7
Work at age 62: expectations and realisations among recent cohorts of Americans	7
The impact of living arrangements and intergenerational support on the health status of older people in China: are rural residents disadvantaged compared to urban residents?	7
Ageing and familial support: a three-generation portrait from urban China	6
Determinants of food insecurity among elderly people: findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey	6

Older people's family relationships in disequilibrium during the COVID-19 pandemic. What really matters?	6
Changes of profession, employer and work tasks in later working life: an empirical overview of staying and leaving	6
Doing time in care homes: insights into the experiences of care home residents in Germany during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The effects of social comparisons on subjective age and self-rated health	6
Old age and fear of crime: cross-national evidence for a decreased impact of neighbourhood disadvantage in older age	6
Ethical issues when interviewing older people about loneliness: reflections and recommendations for an effective methodological approach	6
The nature of paid work in the retirement years	6
Valuation in health and ageing innovation practices	6
‘Knowing me, knowing you’: an exploration of the views and experiences of nursing home residents and staff on their nursing home as ‘home’	6
Health literacy and age-related health-care utilisation: a multi-dimensional approach	6
The experience of caring for an older relative in Chile: going beyond the burden of care	6
Ethnic inequalities in health in later life, 1993–2017: the persistence of health disadvantage over more than two decades	6
Productive engagement and ageing in productivist welfare regimes: questing for an age-friendly city in Hong Kong	6
The perspectives of successful ageing among older adults aged 75+: a systematic review with a narrative synthesis of mixed studies	6
Ageing well in a foreign land: group memberships protect older immigrants’ wellbeing through enabling social support and integration	6
Choice, needs or equality? Discursive struggles about defining home care for older people in Sweden	6
Self-perceptions of ageing and perceived health status: the mediating role of cognitive functioning and physical activity	6
Historical and social forces in the Iridescent Life Course: key life events and experiences of transgender older adults	5
Sociocultural insights on dementia care-giving in Arab and Muslim communities: the perspectives of family care-givers	5
Socio-economic inequality in long-term care: a comparison of three time periods in the Netherlands	5
Vulnerable, recalcitrant and resilient: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of risk and older people within the context of COVID-19 news media	5
Doing and feeling together in older age: self-worth and belonging through social creative activities	5
Effects of a digital reminiscing intervention on people with dementia and their care-givers and relatives	5
Old-age diversity is underrepresented in digital health research: findings from the evaluation of a mobile phone system for post-operative progress monitoring in Sweden	5
Hospital social work and discharge planning for older people: challenges of working in a clinical setting	5
New analytical tools and frameworks to understand dementia: what can a human rights lens offer?	5
Social networks and their impact on access to health care: insights from older widows living alone in Kottayam, South India	5
The enduring myth of endemic age discrimination in the Australian labour market	5
Benefits of volunteerism for middle-aged and older adults: comparisons between types of volunteering activities	5
‘We're happy as we are’: the experience of living with possible undiagnosed dementia	5
Does grandparental child-care provision affect number, satisfaction and with whom leisure activities are done?	5
Art, authenticity and citizenship for people living with dementia in a care home	5
Risk factors for loneliness among older people in a Nordic regional context – a longitudinal study	5
A narrative review of literature on the use of health and social care by older trans adults: what can United Kingdom services learn?	5
Patterns of help and care by adult only children and children with siblings	5
‘You really do become invisible’: examining older adults’ right to the city in the United Kingdom	5
Social participation, attitudes towards ageing and depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults	5
Active ageing in Europe: are changes in social capital associated with engagement, initiation and maintenance of activity in later life?	5
Age-related loss of resources and perceived old age in China	5
Care precarity among older British migrants in Spain	5
‘I'm old, but I'm not old-fashioned’: mealtimes and cooking practices among Danish widows and widowers	5
Intersections between the culture ofXiao(孝) and caring for older relatives in China: perspectives of United Kingdom-based Chinese students on future care for their parents	5
Multidimensional poverty index: a multilevel analysis of deprivation among Iranian older adults	5
Job quality trajectories among baby-boomers in Germany and their consequences for the motivation to work – results from the lidA cohort study	4
Cultural generativity in perspective: motivations of older Jewish volunteers	4
Positive experiences in dementia care-giving: findings from the IDEAL programme	4
Analysing the travel behaviour of older adults: what are the determinants of sustainable mobility?	4
(In)Decent work conditions and quality care: an issue for long-term care policy	4
(In/Ex)clusive fitness cultures: an institutional ethnography of group exercise for older adults	4
Comprehending socio-relational factors of mental wellbeing in the oldest old within Nordic and Mediterranean countries	4
A scoping review exploring the ‘grey area’ of suicide-related expression in later life: Developing a conceptual framework for professional engagement	4
Relationship between self-assessed health and life satisfaction in older adults: the moderating role of ego-resiliency	4
Are active labour market policies effective for the older unemployed? A meta-evaluation	4
Effect of older adults in the family on the sandwich generation's pursuit of entrepreneurship: evidence from China	4
The gendered experience of social resources in the transition to late-life widowhood	4
Migrants’ pathways to aged care: the role of local relationships of care in facilitating access for super-diverse older populations	4
Financial abuse of older people by third parties in banking institutions: a qualitative exploration	4
Care arrangements between family and state – developing hybrid scripts of ageing in a context of migration	4
Gendered retirement pathways across lifecourse regimes	4
Older people's intention to use medical apps during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: an application of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model and the Technology of Accepta	4
Own health, spousal health and transitions in loneliness among middle-aged and older adults in China	4
Exploring the relationship between working history, retirement transition and women's life satisfaction	4
Ethical dilemmas: balancing choice and risk with a duty of care in extending personalisation into the care home	4
‘We don't talk about age’: a study of human resources retirement narratives	4
Marital offence-specific forgiveness as mediator in the relationships between personality traits and marital satisfaction among older couples: Perspectives on Lars Tornstam's theory of gerotranscenden	4
Examining the role of driven-game shooting as a psycho-social resource for older adults in rural areas: a mixed-methods study	4
‘She shouldn't cross the line’: experiential effectivity of social guidance trajectories for socially isolated older adults with complex problems	4
Older workers imagining retirement: the collapse of agency, or freedom at last?	4
Socioeconomic inequality of long-term care for older people with and without dementia in England	4
Family involvement with care homes following placement of a relative living with dementia: a review	4
Lifestyle differentiation among older adults: exploring the links between individuals’ behaviours, socio-demographic characteristics, health and wellbeing in later life	4
Prosocial activity in later life: are informal help and care associated with volunteering and charity?	4
More than a visitor? Rethinking metaphors for family care in long-term care homes	4
Enacting the babushka: older Russian women ‘doing’ age, gender and class by accepting the role of a stoic carer	4
‘It's overwhelming at the start’: transitioning to public transit use as an older adult	4
The global care network and its impact on sending and receiving countries: current knowledge and future directions	4
Person-centred Australian residential aged care services: how well do actions match the claims?	4
Enacting citizenship through participation in a technological society: a longitudinal three-year study among people with dementia in Sweden	4