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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Aging Studies is 2. 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
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	60
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19, ageism, and the intergenerational twitter response	40
Dying alone and lonely dying: Media discourse and pandemic conditions	35
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	25
The twin faces of ageism, glorification and abjection: A content analysis of age advocacy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Advanced old age as a developmental dilemma: An in-depth comparison of established fourth age conceptualizations	23
Family care across diverse cultures: Re-envisioning using a transnational lens	23
This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling	20
Exploring rural older adult perspectives on the scope, reach and sustainability of age-friendly programs	17
From double to triple standards of ageing. Perceptions of physical appearance at the intersections of age, gender and class	16
A critical gerontological framing analysis of persistent ageism in NZ online news media: Don't call us “elderly”!	15
Assisted eating in late-stage dementia: Intercorporeal interaction	12
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	12
Breaking the win-win narrative: The dark side of older people's political participation	11
Doing age in the workplace: Exploring age categorisation in performance appraisal	11
“I do those things to pass the time.”: Active ageing during fourth age	11
Approaching retirement: A qualitative study of older nursing assistants' experiences of work in residential care and late-career planning	10
How young adults view older people: Exploring the pathways of constructing a group image after participation in an intergenerational programme	10
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision	10
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	10
Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks	10
From invisible to extraordinary: Representations of older LGBTQ persons in Canadian print and online news media	10
Lived experiences of older adults living in the community during the COVID-19 lockdown – The case of Mauritius	10
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	9
Do internalized age stereotypes mediate the relationship between volunteering and social connectedness for adults 50+?	9

The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Dementia care-sharing and migration: An intersectional exploration of family carers' experiences	8
Gender differences in family support to older adults and implications for social work in south-east Nigeria	8
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	8
The role of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older adults' representations of aging and anxieties regarding one's own future	7
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	7
Facebook and older adults: Fulfilling psychological needs?	7
“It's not that I don't have things to do. It just all revolves around me” – men's reflections on meaning in life in the transition to retirement in Denmark	7
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	7
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline	6
“There were no words”: Older LGBTQ+ persons' experiences of finding and claiming their gender and sexual identities	6
Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper articles: A comparison between the perspectives of older and younger adults	6
Winter of our contentment: Examining risk, pleasure, and emplacement in later-life physical activity	6
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	6
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	6
The stigma of dementia and the media: An analysis of reality shows about older people with dementia running a pop-up restaurant	6
Challenges related to providing care for parents with dementia across borders: A qualitative study on transnational carers in Oslo	6
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	6
‘Bodies that never grow’: How psychiatric understanding of autism spectrum disorders affects autistic people's bodily experience of gender, ageing, and sexual desire	6
Is ageism an oppression?	6
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	6
Aging well in the community: Understanding the complexities of older people's dial-a-ride bus journeys	5
Constructing loneliness: Home care providers' notions of older adults' social needs and the possibilities of the home care profession to support social participation	5
Living solo at midlife: Can the pandemic de-stigmatize living alone in India?	5
Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults	5
Imagining feminist old age: Moving beyond ‘successful’ ageing?	5
Involving older people in inclusive educational research	5
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	5
Experiences and motives of retirement-aged workers during the first wave of COVID-19 in Slovenia: “This was the first time in 40 years that I really saw spring”	5
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	5
“Remember this picture when you take more than you need”: Constructing morality through instrumental ageism in COVID-19 memes on social media	5
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion	5
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	5
Anti-aging technoscience & the biologization of cumulative inequality: Affinities in the biopolitics of successful aging	5
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	5
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	4
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	4
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	4
Temporality and the aging self. How subjective time is folding over its linear progression	4
From fact to meaning: Care practitioners' hermeneutic competence development in residential care for persons with dementia	4
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision	4
“I'm definitely not socially excluded!”- Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone	4
Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension	4
Social media discussions about long-term care and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
My home in later life: A phenomenographic study of older adults' experience of home	4
Equality according to whom? Debating an age-related restriction in the upcoming disability legislation reform in Finland	4
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	4
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	4
Choral singing and dementia: Exploring musicality as embodied and relational accomplishment	4
“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19	4

About me but without me? Older adult's perspectives on interpersonal communication during care transitions from hospital to seniors' residence	4
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	4
In search of epistemic justice. Dialogical reflection of researchers on situated ethics in studies with people living with language and/or cognitive impairment	3
The experience of loneliness and living with sight loss in English care homes	3
Aging masculinities in Austria: Social realities and cultural representations	3
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema	3
Aging well with psychosis	3
Cognitivism ageing: The Alzheimer conundrum as switched ontology & the potential for a new materialist dementia	3
Transforming nursing home culture: Opinions of older people. A cross-sectional study in Belgium	3
Ageing without remembering: Fantasy, memory and loss in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant	3
Is generativity Erikson’s answer to human ageing in the neoliberal world?	3
Exploring the perceptions and stigmatizing experiences of Israeli family caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease	3
A conversational, small-story approach to narrative care for people with dementia living in care institutions: Strategies and challenges	3
‘Everything you need to embrace the change’: The ‘menopausal turn’ in contemporary UK culture	3
Vulnerability in context; hard numbers, tricky words and grey areas for gerontology	3
“You gotta have your cry”: Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living	3
Dating and sexualities across the life course: The interactive effects of aging and gender	3
Turning age into agency: A qualitative longitudinal investigation into older jobseekers' agentic responses to ageism	3
Embodied experiences and existential reflections of the oldest old	3
Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study	3
Bouncing off Ove: Old men's readings of the novel A Man Called Ove as a cultural representation of ageing masculinity	3
Everyday life and the new shapes of identities – The different meanings of ‘things that did not happen’ in the lives of Finnish older persons during the pandemic	3
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home	3
Conceptualizing violence in nursing home policy: A citizenship perspective	3
Why do academics fail to plan for retirement? Employers' and employees' views	3
“It makes me feel like good inside because I helped him do stuff” – Perceptions of psychological well-being in adolescents providing dementia care	3
Aging with drug use: Theorizing intersectionally with material gerontology and critical drug studies	3
Becoming Dama: The new old age in urban China	3
The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research	3
Supporting people living with dementia in novel joint activities: Managing tablet computers	3
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie	2
Representations of older people in Turkish prime-time TV series and Netflix original Turkish series: A comparative content analysis	2
Is filial care for older adults in Nigeria threatened? Examining concerns from adult offspring providing care	2
“It's just so important that people's voices are heard”: The dementia associate panel	2
Aging, housing markets and social inclusion: Insights from India	2
Last love: The ‘double standard of ageing’ and women's experience of gender and sexuality at mid-life	2
Media portrayals of transitions from work to retirement in two ageing societies: the case of ageing baby boomers in Japan and Finland	2
The beautification of men within skincare advertisements: A multimodal critical discourse analysis	2
Men in/and crisis: The cultural narrative of men's midlife crises	2
Multi-species dementia studies: Contours, contributions and controversies	2
Aging in the downtown corridor: Mapping the neighborhood experiences of Seattle's unhoused adults over age 50	2
A qualitative study of older people living with HIV Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support	2
Being and becoming ‘a frail older adult’: Meaning-making and resistance through storytelling.	2
“It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home	2
Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries	2
Health care professionals' experiences of possibilities and constraints in caring for older adults living with long-term pain in community home care	2
What happens behind doors? Exploring everyday indoor activities when ageing in place	2
“I'm not terribly lonely”: Advancing the understanding of intimacy among older adults	2
“Seeing the day-to-day situation”: A grounded theory of how persons living with dementia and their family caregivers experience the hospital to home transition and beyond	2
Staying connected: Alzheimer's hashtags and opportunities for engagement and overcoming stigma	2
Diversity of strong and weak ties and loneliness in older adults	2
Age, subjectivity and the concept of subjective age: A critique	2
Organizational commitment among residential care workers	2
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults	2
Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship	2
Perceptions of community among suburban and urban-dwelling adults aging in place	2
Personhood and aging: Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life	2
Dementia as a material for co-creative art making: Towards feminist posthumanist caring	2
Exclusion within exclusion: The experiences of internally displaced older adults in Lugbe camp, Abuja	2
The political presence of persons living with dementia in parliament. A qualitative study into the dementia representation work of German parliamentarians	2
Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age	2
A real eye-opener: Nursing home staff experiences of co-designing nursing home services together with residents	2