OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Aging in place and the places of aging: A longitudinal study	59
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	42
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19, ageism, and the intergenerational twitter response	33
Dying alone and lonely dying: Media discourse and pandemic conditions	28
“Fiercely independent”: Experiences of aging in the right place of older women living alone with physical limitations	18
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	18
Advanced old age as a developmental dilemma: An in-depth comparison of established fourth age conceptualizations	17
Strategies of socially isolated older adults: Mechanisms of emergence and persistence	17
Bourdieu's forms of capital and the stratification of later life	16
Exploring rural older adult perspectives on the scope, reach and sustainability of age-friendly programs	15
Buffer or Blade: Perceived relationship closeness in couples navigating Alzheimer's	15
Family care across diverse cultures: Re-envisioning using a transnational lens	15
The distance to death perceptions of older adults explain why they age in place: A theoretical examination	15
This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling	14
The twin faces of ageism, glorification and abjection: A content analysis of age advocacy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
From double to triple standards of ageing. Perceptions of physical appearance at the intersections of age, gender and class	12
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	12
Exploring ethno-cultural variations in how older Canadians define healthy aging: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)	11
From invisible to extraordinary: Representations of older LGBTQ persons in Canadian print and online news media	9
A critical gerontological framing analysis of persistent ageism in NZ online news media: Don't call us “elderly”!	9
How young adults view older people: Exploring the pathways of constructing a group image after participation in an intergenerational programme	9
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision	9
‘I am making a difference’: Understanding advocacy as a citizenship practice among persons living with dementia	9
Breaking the win-win narrative: The dark side of older people's political participation	9
Lived experiences of older adults living in the community during the COVID-19 lockdown – The case of Mauritius	9

Doing age in the workplace: Exploring age categorisation in performance appraisal	8
Becoming and being an older adult: A mixed methods study of the lived experience of aging	8
‘I never really left the university:’ Continuity amongst male academics in the transition from work to retirement	8
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	7
Assisted eating in late-stage dementia: Intercorporeal interaction	7
Structures, tensions, and processes shaping long-term care home staff's role in end of life decision-making for residents with dementia	7
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	7
Doing research on the intersection of ethnicity and old age: Key insights from decolonial frameworks	7
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	6
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	6
How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions?	6
The experience and meaning of aging with multiple sclerosis: An existential phenomenological approach	6
Imagining feminist old age: Moving beyond ‘successful’ ageing?	6
“I do those things to pass the time.”: Active ageing during fourth age	6
Challenges related to providing care for parents with dementia across borders: A qualitative study on transnational carers in Oslo	6
Facebook and older adults: Fulfilling psychological needs?	6
Living solo at midlife: Can the pandemic de-stigmatize living alone in India?	5
Winter of our contentment: Examining risk, pleasure, and emplacement in later-life physical activity	5
Dementia care-sharing and migration: An intersectional exploration of family carers' experiences	5
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	5
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	5
Constructing loneliness: Home care providers' notions of older adults' social needs and the possibilities of the home care profession to support social participation	4
“There were no words”: Older LGBTQ+ persons' experiences of finding and claiming their gender and sexual identities	4
Approaching retirement: A qualitative study of older nursing assistants' experiences of work in residential care and late-career planning	4
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	4
To lift or not to lift? The dilemma of an aging face in Erica Jong's later works	4
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	4
Involving older people in inclusive educational research	4
The stigma of dementia and the media: An analysis of reality shows about older people with dementia running a pop-up restaurant	4
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	4
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision	4
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	4
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion	4
Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper articles: A comparison between the perspectives of older and younger adults	4
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”	4
Anti-aging technoscience & the biologization of cumulative inequality: Affinities in the biopolitics of successful aging	4
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	4
Vulnerability in context; hard numbers, tricky words and grey areas for gerontology	3
Gender differences in family support to older adults and implications for social work in south-east Nigeria	3
Aging well in the community: Understanding the complexities of older people's dial-a-ride bus journeys	3
Ageing without remembering: Fantasy, memory and loss in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant	3
Becoming Dama: The new old age in urban China	3
About me but without me? Older adult's perspectives on interpersonal communication during care transitions from hospital to seniors' residence	3
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	3
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	3
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	3
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	3
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	3
Choral singing and dementia: Exploring musicality as embodied and relational accomplishment	3
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home	3

The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research	3
Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study	3
In search of epistemic justice. Dialogical reflection of researchers on situated ethics in studies with people living with language and/or cognitive impairment	3
From fact to meaning: Care practitioners' hermeneutic competence development in residential care for persons with dementia	3
Equality according to whom? Debating an age-related restriction in the upcoming disability legislation reform in Finland	3
Do internalized age stereotypes mediate the relationship between volunteering and social connectedness for adults 50+?	3
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	3
Aging masculinities in Austria: Social realities and cultural representations	3
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	3
“Remember this picture when you take more than you need”: Constructing morality through instrumental ageism in COVID-19 memes on social media	3
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline	3
Temporality and the aging self. How subjective time is folding over its linear progression	3
Transforming nursing home culture: Opinions of older people. A cross-sectional study in Belgium	3
Older adults in traditional and modern living arrangements in southern India: The importance of maintaining a sense of belonging and positive intergenerational exchanges	3
My home in later life: A phenomenographic study of older adults' experience of home	3
“What am I going to be like when I'm that age?”: How older volunteers anticipate ageing through home visiting	3
“I have no reason not to be happy”: The social and bodily conditions of positive aging for Latin-American men in Mexico	3
“I'm definitely not socially excluded!”- Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone	3
“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
Embodied experiences and existential reflections of the oldest old	2
Multi-species dementia studies: Contours, contributions and controversies	2
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	2
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema	2
Diversity of strong and weak ties and loneliness in older adults	2
Social media discussions about long-term care and the COVID-19 pandemic	2
A real eye-opener: Nursing home staff experiences of co-designing nursing home services together with residents	2
Engagement in civic organisations in old age: Motivations for participation and retention	2
Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults	2
Perceptions of community among suburban and urban-dwelling adults aging in place	2
“It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home	2
Aging well with psychosis	2
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
“I'm not terribly lonely”: Advancing the understanding of intimacy among older adults	2
Is generativity Erikson’s answer to human ageing in the neoliberal world?	2
A paradoxical academic life: What we can learn from having the ‘end’ in sight	2
Is ageism an oppression?	2
The experience of loneliness and living with sight loss in English care homes	2
Time to care? Temporal variations of agency of the Finnish adult foster carers	2
Age, subjectivity and the concept of subjective age: A critique	2
“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19	2
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	2
“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	2
“It makes me feel like good inside because I helped him do stuff” – Perceptions of psychological well-being in adolescents providing dementia care	2
Old friends make the best friends: A counter-narrative of aging for people and pets	2
“If you do not find the world tasty and sexy, you are out of touch with the most important things in life”: Resident and family member perspectives on sexual expression in continuing care	2
Keeping quiet: aging, personhood, and intergenerational harmony in rural Central Tibet	2
Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship	2
Aging with drug use: Theorizing intersectionally with material gerontology and critical drug studies	2
The role of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older adults' representations of aging and anxieties regarding one's own future	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
Exploring the perceptions and stigmatizing experiences of Israeli family caregivers of people with Parkinson's disease	2
Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age	2
“You gotta have your cry”: Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living	2
Dating and sexualities across the life course: The interactive effects of aging and gender	2
Aging in the downtown corridor: Mapping the neighborhood experiences of Seattle's unhoused adults over age 50	2
Why do academics fail to plan for retirement? Employers' and employees' views	2
Being and becoming ‘a frail older adult’: Meaning-making and resistance through storytelling.	2
Health care professionals' experiences of possibilities and constraints in caring for older adults living with long-term pain in community home care	2
Who wants to live forever? Age cohort differences in attitudes toward life extension	2
Aging, housing markets and social inclusion: Insights from India	2
Integrated social and health care services among societies in transition: Insights from Turkey	2
Personhood and aging: Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life	2
Narratives of home and neighbourhood within state-subsidised aged housing in Durban, South Africa	2