OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Aging Studies 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
Aging in place and the places of aging: A longitudinal study	62
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	43
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19, ageism, and the intergenerational twitter response	36
Dying alone and lonely dying: Media discourse and pandemic conditions	29
“Fiercely independent”: Experiences of aging in the right place of older women living alone with physical limitations	19
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	19
Advanced old age as a developmental dilemma: An in-depth comparison of established fourth age conceptualizations	18
Strategies of socially isolated older adults: Mechanisms of emergence and persistence	17
Bourdieu's forms of capital and the stratification of later life	17
Family care across diverse cultures: Re-envisioning using a transnational lens	16
Exploring rural older adult perspectives on the scope, reach and sustainability of age-friendly programs	15
The distance to death perceptions of older adults explain why they age in place: A theoretical examination	15
The twin faces of ageism, glorification and abjection: A content analysis of age advocacy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic	14
This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling	14
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	12
From double to triple standards of ageing. Perceptions of physical appearance at the intersections of age, gender and class	12
The myth of ‘older LGBT+’ people: Research shortcomings and policy/practice implications for health/care provision	9
Lived experiences of older adults living in the community during the COVID-19 lockdown – The case of Mauritius	9
Breaking the win-win narrative: The dark side of older people's political participation	9
How young adults view older people: Exploring the pathways of constructing a group image after participation in an intergenerational programme	9
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
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
Doing age in the workplace: Exploring age categorisation in performance appraisal	8

Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	7
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	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
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
Facebook and older adults: Fulfilling psychological needs?	6
“I do those things to pass the time.”: Active ageing during fourth age	6
The experience and meaning of aging with multiple sclerosis: An existential phenomenological approach	6
Imagining feminist old age: Moving beyond ‘successful’ ageing?	6
How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions?	6
Challenges related to providing care for parents with dementia across borders: A qualitative study on transnational carers in Oslo	6
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	6
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	5
Living solo at midlife: Can the pandemic de-stigmatize living alone in India?	5
Dementia-friendliness – A matter of knowledge, responsibility, dignity, and illusion	5
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	5
Dementia care-sharing and migration: An intersectional exploration of family carers' experiences	5
Winter of our contentment: Examining risk, pleasure, and emplacement in later-life physical activity	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
Representations of older adults in COVID-related newspaper articles: A comparison between the perspectives of older and younger adults	4
The stigma of dementia and the media: An analysis of reality shows about older people with dementia running a pop-up restaurant	4
Approaching retirement: A qualitative study of older nursing assistants' experiences of work in residential care and late-career planning	4
Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision	4
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	4
Involving older people in inclusive educational research	4
“What am I going to be like when I'm that age?”: How older volunteers anticipate ageing through home visiting	4
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	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
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	4
The role of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in older adults' representations of aging and anxieties regarding one's own future	4
Equality according to whom? Debating an age-related restriction in the upcoming disability legislation reform in Finland	4
“There were no words”: Older LGBTQ+ persons' experiences of finding and claiming their gender and sexual identities	4
Anti-aging technoscience & the biologization of cumulative inequality: Affinities in the biopolitics of successful aging	4
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	4
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	4
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	3
Gender differences in family support to older adults and implications for social work in south-east Nigeria	3
Aging masculinities in Austria: Social realities and cultural representations	3
Becoming Dama: The new old age in urban China	3
Choral singing and dementia: Exploring musicality as embodied and relational accomplishment	3
Ageing without remembering: Fantasy, memory and loss in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant	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
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	3
“You gotta have your cry”: Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living	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
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	3
“I'm definitely not socially excluded!”- Perceptions of social exclusion among Australian government housing residents aged 80 and older who live alone	3
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline	3
“Remember this picture when you take more than you need”: Constructing morality through instrumental ageism in COVID-19 memes on social media	3

The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research	3
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	3
Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study	3
About me but without me? Older adult's perspectives on interpersonal communication during care transitions from hospital to seniors' residence	3
From fact to meaning: Care practitioners' hermeneutic competence development in residential care for persons with dementia	3
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	3
Perspectives on creative well-being of older adults	3
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	3
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	3
Aging well in the community: Understanding the complexities of older people's dial-a-ride bus journeys	3
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home	3
Temporality and the aging self. How subjective time is folding over its linear progression	3
Vulnerability in context; hard numbers, tricky words and grey areas for gerontology	3
Transforming nursing home culture: Opinions of older people. A cross-sectional study in Belgium	3
My home in later life: A phenomenographic study of older adults' experience of home	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
Do internalized age stereotypes mediate the relationship between volunteering and social connectedness for adults 50+?	3
“I have no reason not to be happy”: The social and bodily conditions of positive aging for Latin-American men in Mexico	3