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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care	72
Home-making or home harms: Perceived and experienced tensions between domestic materiality and ageing	46
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	35
Corrigendum to “Contradictions of hegemonic masculinity and the (hopeful) potential of old age and caring masculinity in Estonian society and in films A Friend of Mine (2011) and Tangerines (2013)” [J	28
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	22
Queer temporalities and the life course: Trans aging in Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby (2021)	18
Inessential objects: Cherished possessions in late life in Indian fiction	16
Priests aging well: The role of gerotranscendence and its relationships with perceived health status, and life satisfaction among Catholic priests	14
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The image of old age emerging from place personalization in older adults' dwellings	13
The philosophy of collective memory in the novel “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro	13
Aging together-with: The growing older of humans, non-humans and more-than-humans. A commentary	12
A qualitative study of older people living with HIV in Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support	12
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	12
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults	12
Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults	11
Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research	11
Age enterprising: “Old” age on the make in Ghana	10
“It's all about being a woman”: Intersections of multiple (dis)advantages experienced by older women in Tanzania	10
Social engagement among older women in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Care-ethical considerations of technology-care-assemblages	9
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	9
Ageing without senescence: A critical absence in social gerontology?	9
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	9
Age, subjectivity and the concept of subjective age: A critique	9

Editorial Board	8
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	8
Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis	8
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	8
Is ageism an oppression?	8
“Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of COVID-19 pandemic visitor restrictions	8
The life course effects of socioeconomic status on later life loneliness: The role of gender and ethnicity	8
Editorial Board	8
On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism.	7
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	7
Communication officers in local authorities meeting social media: On the production of social media photos of older adults	7
Editorial Board	7
Editorial Board	7
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	7
Hidden in plain sight: Women and gendered dementia dynamics in the Australian Aged Care Royal Commission	7
“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	7
Everything lost? On the interaction of queerness and dementia in Axel Ranisch's Dicke Mädchen (2011)	7
Editorial Board	7
Last love: The ‘double standard of ageing’ and women's experience of gender and sexuality at mid-life	6
Older adult Cubans moving to the Canary Islands (Spain): Migrants' strategies in later life	6
Digital life as a cabaret, old chum: A dramaturgical analysis of older digitalised home residents and their wider caring networks	6
“We're still alive, much to everyone's surprise”: The experience of trans older adults living with dementia in an ageist, cisgenderist, and cogniticist society	6
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	6
Dating and sexualities across the life course: The interactive effects of aging and gender	6
A conversational, small-story approach to narrative care for people with dementia living in care institutions: Strategies and challenges	6
Exploring experiential differences in everyday activities – A focused ethnographic study in the homes of people living with memory-led Alzheimer's disease and posterior cortical atrophy	6
“Courage to cobble something new”: Women's queer and creative narratives of bisexuality and ageing	6
Aging masculinities in Austria: Social realities and cultural representations	6
“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19	6
Social death of older adults residing in nursing homes in Finland	6
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying	5
Wedded to the land? Representations of rural ageing masculinities in Irish culture and society	5
The crone and the hydra: Figuring temporal relations to aging code	5
Conceptualizing violence in nursing home policy: A citizenship perspective	5
Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India: Class-based engagements with globally circulating ideologies	5
Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension	5
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie	5
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	5
A secret(ly) aging man who has no time to die: The spectre of aging in the James Bond franchise	5
A critical gerontological framing analysis of persistent ageism in NZ online news media: Don't call us “elderly”!	5
My home in later life: A phenomenographic study of older adults' experience of home	5
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady: A macabre tale of aging	5
The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study	5
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’	5
Dementia Friendly Communities: Micro-processes and practices observed locally in Queensland Australia	5
A Bibliotherapeutic discourse on aging and masculinity in continuing care retirement communities	5
Influence of materiality in professional geriatric care: Conceptual, methodological and empirical insights	5
Intersectional epistemic tensions associated with building knowledge with LGBTQ+ older adults of color	4
The twin faces of ageism, glorification and abjection: A content analysis of age advocacy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Radio dramatization of aging in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache	4

Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study	4
‘I am not who I was’: Old age and masculinity in Maximianus Etruscus' elegies	4
The call-bell in residential care homes: Experiences of residents and staff	4
A qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians	4
The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research	4
Is generativity Erikson’s answer to human ageing in the neoliberal world?	4
Renovate my uterus: Aging queerly through performance art and karaoke	4
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial for the special issue the growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans	4
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	3
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	3
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	3
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	3
What happens behind doors? Exploring everyday indoor activities when ageing in place	3
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home	3
Climate transition and climate adaptation: The experiences of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel	3
The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care?	3
Turning age into agency: A qualitative longitudinal investigation into older jobseekers' agentic responses to ageism	3
Applying person-centered research ethics in the design of dementia-specific measures	3
Editorial Board	3
“It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home	3
Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship	3
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city	3
Embodied experiences and existential reflections of the oldest old	3
On personhood in residential and long-term care centres	3
Social media discussions about long-term care and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Mobilities and leisure in later ages: The role of religious tourism in the lives of low-income older women in India	3
Perceptions of community among suburban and urban-dwelling adults aging in place	3
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	3
Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor	3
Negotiations of vulnerability in aging with vision impairment	3
Personhood and aging: Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life	3
Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective	3
The role of objects in negotiations in convoys of care: Addressing fundamental concerns of informal caregivers	3
The medieval biological clock? Gendered reproductive aging in medieval western medicine	3
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during COVID-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world	2
From ethical approval to an ethics of care: Considerations for the inclusion of older adults in ethnographic research from the perspective of a ‘humanisation of care framework’	2
Aging enacted in practice: How unloved objects thrive in the shadows of care	2
A potential conflict between grandparenthood and the third age lifestyle in the Finnish countryside	2
The political presence of persons living with dementia in parliament. A qualitative study into the dementia representation work of German parliamentarians	2
Editorial Board	2
Ambiguous personhood: Paradoxes of social belonging in Danish nursing home care	2
I care a lot: A political economic approach to aging	2
Aging in the downtown corridor: Mapping the neighborhood experiences of Seattle's unhoused adults over age 50	2
To begin the world anew: Epistolary lessons on aging into old age by 4th earl of Chesterfield	2
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	2
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19, ageism, and the intergenerational twitter response	2
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	2
Community care and social participation: An ethnography of clubs for older people in Peñalolén (Chile) during and after the pandemic	2
Reassessing the goals of musical activities for people living with dementia: Supporting joint agency, selfhood and couplehood with an embodied and relational approach	2
Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies	2
‘Bodies that never grow’: How psychiatric understanding of autism spectrum disorders affects autistic people's bodily experience of gender, ageing, and sexual desire	2
Bouncing off Ove: Old men's readings of the novel A Man Called Ove as a cultural representation of ageing masculinity	2
Assisted eating in late-stage dementia: Intercorporeal interaction	2
Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life	2
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema	2
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	2
The heroic challenge of retirement	2
“We never lived together either”: Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life	2
Editorial Board	2
Temporality and the aging self. How subjective time is folding over its linear progression	2
Transforming nursing home culture: Opinions of older people. A cross-sectional study in Belgium	2
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	2
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	2
The eight-legged confidant: Narrativizing octopuses and non-human aging	2
Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences	2
Age differences in emotional reactions to ageist memes and changes in age of one's Best Self	2