OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Gerontology is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Improving the digital skills of older adults in a COVID-19 pandemic environment	30
In care and digitally savvy? Modern ICT use in long-term care institutions	25
Not good days for technophobes: older internet users during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Creating supportive environments and enhancing personal perception to bridge the digital divide among older adults	20
Covid-19: U3A students’ report on the impacts of social isolation on physical and mental health and access to information about the virus during the pandemic	20
Mental health, resilience and HIV in older gay and bisexual men	18
Factors affecting information and communication technology use and eHealth literacy among older adults in the US and South Korea	16
“I’m slowly ageing but I still have my value”: challenging ageism and empowering older persons through lifelong learning in Singapore	16
The effect of loneliness and perceived social support among older adults on their life satisfaction and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Correlates of dementia-related anxiety: self-perceived dementia risk and ageism	11
Active aging, psychological well-being and quality of life of elderly and pre-elderly Malaysians during movement control periods	11
Older service users’ experiences of learning to use eHealth applications in sparsely populated healthcare settings in Northern Sweden and Finland	11
College students’ perceptions of “old people” compared to “grandparents”	11
Investigating older adults’ intention to learn health knowledge on social media	10
Older adults’ self-efficacy in computer use and the factors that impact their self-efficacy: a path analysis	10
An analysis of socioemotional selectivity theory in the context of older adults’ use of Facebook	9
Sharing Indigenous Knowledge through intergenerational digital storytelling: Design of a workshop engaging Elders and youth	8
The retirement experiences of women academics: a qualitative, descriptive study	8
An interdisciplinary approach to enhancing health knowledge and cultural awareness with LGBT older adults	8
Teaching older adults: an instructional model from Singapore	8
Bringing older consumers onboard to online banking: a generational cohort comparison	8
Put your hands in mine: a metaphor analysis of family support in death anxiety and interment stress among Filipino older adults	7
Retirement lifestyle conceptualization and well-being in recent retirees	7
Generation to generation: effects of intergenerational interactions on attitudes	6
Understanding the use of digital finance among older internet users in urban China: Evidence from an online convenience sample	6

People with dementia positioning themselves as learners	6
Assessment of health-care professionals’ knowledge and attitudes on sexuality and aging: an integrative review	6
The participatory turn in Swedish ageing research: Productive interactions as learning and societal impact	5
Lifelong learning activities for older adults: a scoping review	5
Ageing versus active aging: how old age is represented in children’s books	5
Promoting age-friendly organizational culture through lifelong learning programs in higher education: experience and insights from faculty	5
How do older adults process icons during a navigation task? Effects of aging, semantic distance, and text label	5
National identity of rural Chinese older adults: a hermeneutic phenomenological study	5
Loneliness patterns and sleep problems after the initial outbreak of COVID-19: Findings from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)	4
Matters of HEARTS: health, experience of abuse, resilience, technology use, and safety of older adults	4
Acceptance of gamified virtual reality environments by older adults	4
Does mastering of abstract words decline with age?	4
Design, development, and evaluation of a virtual aging simulation system	4
Elder abuse’s correlation to health and resilience of older adults	4
Barriers and supportive factors for older adults learning about and using information and communication technologies for healthy aging in Costa Rica	4
Postretirement work from a gender perspective: in-depth analysis of the Chilean case	4
Process and outcomes of telephone reassurance program training for older adult volunteers	4
Medical clowning’s contribution to the well-being of older adults in a residential home	4
Daily activities and psychological need satisfaction of elderly adults: the experience sampling method	4
Phenomenologizing Filipino custodial grandparents’ interment stress	4
Understanding getting and growing older from songs of yesteryears: a latent content analysis	4
Documented barriers to health care access among Latinx older adults: A scoping review	4
Health promotion in early-stage dementia – user experiences from an educative intervention	4
Development and validation of ageist myths in a psychotherapy questionnaire (AMPQ): professional ageism among psychology graduate students	4
Developing senior learners’ autonomy in language learning. An exploratory study of Hungarian adult educators’ support strategies	4
“Because I could not stop for death”: phenomenologizing death anxiety among Filipino Older adults	4
Medical students’ help-seeking recommendations for a person with Alzheimer’s disease: relationships with knowledge and stigmatic beliefs	3
Yoga for seniors: understanding their beliefs and barriers to participation	3
Implementing intergenerational learning in a preschool: a case study from Taiwan	3
Korean baby boomer retirees’ bridge employment experiences in community service jobs	3
Supporting successful communities of practice for older adults: a qualitative secondary analysis	3
The Effect of a Health Belief Model-based Educational Intervention on the Determinants of Intention to Influenza Prevention Behaviors among the Older Adults	3
Older trans individuals’ experiences of health and social care and the views of healthcare and social care practitioners: ‘they hadn’t a clue’	3
A meta-analytic review of the effects of intergenerational programs for youth and older adults	3
Correlation between socio-demographic factors and adoption and use of wearable activity trackers in online American older adults	3
Older adult volunteers in intergenerational programs in educational settings across the globe	3
What’s on your bucket list?Utility and importance of the retirement preferences of 40–70-year-old Filipino teachers using discrete choice estimation	3
Examination of behavioral intention toward E-learning: a case of University of the Third Age students	3
Teaching methods for senior learning courses in Taiwan: the importance of motivation, interaction, and integration	3
Improving expectations regarding aging in younger adults: a classroom study	3
Attitudes, perceived competence, and social limitation among older adults with hearing problems	3
Acute medical and surgical nurses’ knowledge and attitudes towards ageing and older persons	3
Beyond the tip of the iceberg: a qualitative sentiment analysis of YouTube viewers’ emotional valence toward older adults auditioning in worldwide Got Talent®	3
“I was giving someone who didn’t have a voice a voice”: exploring qualitative mini-research projects as a tool to teach students about aging	3
Effect of loneliness and sociodemographic, health, COVID-19 pandemic-related factors on depression among older adults	3
Urgent call for health education to promote eHealth literacy in aging populations: a brief note	3