OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Aging & Social Policy is 1. 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
The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Isolation in Long-term Care Homes: Perspectives of Policies and Strategies from Six Countries	46
Technology Recommendations to Support Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Care Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	36
“We Are Saving Their Bodies and Destroying Their Souls.”: Family Caregivers’ Experiences of Formal Care Setting Visitation Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community-Dwelling Older Adults’ Experiences	18
The Association between Staff Retention and English Care Home Quality	16
Assessing Policy Challenges and Strategies Supporting Informal Caregivers in the European Union	15
Improving Transitions in Care for Patients and Family Caregivers Living in Rural and Underserved Areas: The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act	14
Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: Research to Strengthen Policy and Practice	14
The Impact of Public Health Restrictions in Residential Aged Care on Residents, Families, and Staff During COVID-19: Getting the Balance Right	13
Telephone-Based Emotional Support for Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
COVID-19 and Long-Term Care Policy for Older People in Japan	13
Profiles of Caregiving Arrangements of Community-dwelling People Living with Probable Dementia	12
Challenges and Assets of Older Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives of Gerontology Scholars	11
Assessing Age-Friendliness: Individualistic vs. Collectivistic Cultures	10
Palliative Care for Older Adults with Multimorbidity in the Time of COVID 19	10
The Impact of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes in Italy: The Case of Lombardy	9
Shining a Spotlight: The Ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Older Adults	9
Giving, Receiving, and Doing Together: Interorganizational Interactions in Age-Friendly Community Initiatives	9
Involving Socially Excluded Groups in Age-Friendly Programs: The Role of a Spatial Lens and Co-Production Approaches	9
Unrepresented Adults Face Adverse Healthcare Consequences: The Role of Guardians, Public Guardianship Reform, and Alternative Policy Solutions	8
Long-Term Care Insurance Reform in Singapore	8
Developing supportive local communities: Perspectives from people with dementia and caregivers participating in the IDEAL programme	8
The Association Between Preference Satisfaction and Satisfaction with Overall Care for Nursing Home Residents	8
Issues of Elder Care among Migrant Workers in Contemporary Rural China: Filial Piety Redefined from a Foucauldian Perspective	8
COVID-19 Pandemic and Resilience of the Transnational Home-Based Elder Care System between Poland and Germany	8

Shared Site Intergenerational Programs: A National Profile	8
Social Isolation and Safety Issues among Rural Older Adults Living Alone: Perspectives of Meals on Wheels Programs	8
How Can China’s Recent Pension Reform Reduce Pension Inequality?	8
Aligning Policy, Place and Public Value: Planning Age Friendly Cities in Municipal Organizations	7
Social Isolation in Later Life: The Importance of Place, Disadvantage and Diversity	7
Examining Housing Environments and Health Status of Older Adults with Physical Disabilities in South Korea	7
Cross-Agency Collaboration to Address Rural Aging: The Role of County Government	7
Age-friendly communities during the time of COVID-19: a model for rapid community response	7
The impact of place attachment on well-being for older people in high-density urban environment: a qualitative study	7
Minority Older Adults’ Access to and Use of Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly	7
Strengthen Age Discrimination Protections to Help Confront the Challenge of Population Aging	6
Paid Leave to Meet the Health Needs of Aging Family Members in 193 Countries	6
Embracing Challenges for Population Aging in China: Building Scientific Evidence to Inform Long-Term Care Policymaking and Practice	6
Prioritizing the National Aging Policy in Ghana: Critical Next Steps	6
The Relationship Between Staffing Levels and Consumer Complaints in Nursing Homes	5
The Fragmented Picture of Social Care for Older People in German Prisons	5
Old Overnight: Experiences of Age-Based Recommendations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sweden	5
Redesigning Memory Care in the COVID-19 Era: Interdisciplinary Spatial Design Interventions to Minimize Social Isolation in Older Adults	5
Targeting Cash Transfers on the “Poorest of the Poor” in the Slums: How Well Did the Kenya’s Older Persons Cash Transfer Programme Perform?	5
People Living with a Dementia Diagnosis with No Eldercare at all: Who Are They?	5
Does Welfare Receipt Change Consumption on Health among Older Families? The Case of China	5
Assessing Disparities in Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services: A Systematic Review	5
Do Residential Long-Term Care Policies Support Family Involvement in Residents’ Quality of Life in Four Canadian Provinces?	4
Factors Affecting Health Policies for Older People in Iran	4
Comparison of Asian Countries and Age Groups in the Attitudes Toward Active Aging and Impression of Older Adults	4
Quality of Life Scores for Nursing Home Residents are Stable Over Time: Evidence from Minnesota	4
Older Caregivers: Who They Are and How to Support Them	4
A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care	4
Enhancing Federal Revenue under the American Rescue Plan Act: An Opportunity to Bolster State Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Programs	4
Long-Term Care Market Trend and Patterns of Caregiving in the U.S	4
Ageism Interventions: The Need for An Ecological Perspective	4
What do Family Caregivers Want? Payment for Providing Care	4
Aging as a Productive Process: A Critical Analysis of Aging Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	4
Are Age-Friendly Communities “Friendly” for All? Perspectives from LGBTQ2S+ Communities	3
And What About Self-Ageism? “Inner Work” as a Fifth Strategy for the Eradication of Ageism	3
Reframing Aging: Foregrounding Familial and Occupational Roles of Older Adults is Linked to Decreased Ageism Over Two Centuries	3
“Going Back in the Closet”: Addressing Discrimination Against Sexual and Gender Minority Residents in Long-Term Services and Supports by Providing Culturally Responsive Care	3
Health Services Utilization among Older Adults in Pokhara Metropolitan City	3
Defining Long-Term-Care Need Levels for Older Adults: Towards a Standardized European Classification	3
Toward Age-Friendly Policies: Using the Framework of Age-Friendliness to Evaluate the COVID-19 Measures from the Perspectives of Older People in the Netherlands	3
Political Discourse and Aging in a Neoliberal Singapore: Models of Citizenship, Older Adults and Policy Initiatives	3
Size or Content of the Pie? Source of Income and Perceived Income Adequacy of Older Europeans	3
What quality of life domains are most important to older adults in residential care?	3
COVID-19 Exacerbated Long-standing Challenges for the Home Care Workforce	3
Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes: Stakeholder Perspectives on the Federal Preadmission Screening Program	3
Social Support and Stressors among VA Medical Foster Home Caregivers	2
Social Service Providers’ Perceptions of Older Adults’ Food Access During COVID-19	2
Unmet Needs and Associated Factors among Community-living Older People with Disability in China: 2005–2014	2
Older Adults under Guardianship: Challenges and Recommendations for Improving Practice	2
Pension Plan Types and Social Security Knowledge: New Survey Evidence	2

End-of-Life Planning: Normalizing the Process	2
Use of Home and Community-Based Services After Implementation of Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports in Virginia	2
Engagement and Advocacy of Community-Based Organizations Serving Older Adults in Native American, Rural, and Homeless Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Medical Aid in Dying: How Might U.S. Policy Prevent Suffering at the End of Life?	2
Gaps in the System: Supporting People Living with Dementia	2
Defamilisation/familisation measures and pensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan	2
Retirement Saving Over the Life Cycle: Evidence from a Developing Country	2
Retirement Intentions and Increase in Statutory Retirement Age: 2017 Pension Reform and Intended Retirement Age in Finland	2
Time for Good Care and Job Quality: Managing Stress among Older Workers in the Aged Care Sector	2
Barriers to Active Aging in Rural Ethiopia: A Call for a Paradigm Shift to a Rights-Based Approach	2
China’s Ambitious Policy Experiment with Social Long-Term Care Insurance: Promises, Challenges, and Prospects	2
Older Adults, Tablets, and Ambivalence: A Grounded Theory Study of a One-Tablet-Per Older Person, Public Program in Uruguay	2
A Community Initiative to Engage Employers to Support Caregiving Employees and Build an Advocacy Alliance	2
High Medicaid Nursing Homes: Contextual Factors Associated with the Availability of Specialized Resources Required to Care for Obese Residents	2
The relationships between informal and formal social care for older people in England: A comparison before and after the Care Act 2014	2
Long-Term Care Preferences Among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Sociocultural Factors	2
Does Distance Make Happiness? Geographic Proximity of Adult Children and the Well-being of Older Persons	2
Factors influencing the demands for home and community-based care services among older adults living alone in China	2
Anti-Ageism for Gerontologists	2
Sample Selection Bias Due to Differential Mortality: A Supplementary Measure of Old-Age Poverty	2
Urosepsis in Older Adults: Epidemiologic Trends in Florida	2
In Search for a Sustainable and Equitable Long-Term Care for Malaysia	2
Quality of death among older adults in China: The role of medical expenditure and timely medical treatment	2
Engaged Scholarship in Gerontology: Frank Caro’s Lifetime Contributions	2
“I’m Getting Life from the Treatment”: Perceptions of Life and Death Among Middle-Aged and Older Medication-Adherent Persons Living with HIV in Rural South Africa	2
Implementing a Telehealth Support Tool for Community-Dwelling Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Investigation of Provider Experiences	2
Influence of promoting an “age-friendly cities” strategy on psychological capital and social engagement based on the scenario method	2
Public Policy and Experiences of Aging: Social Relationships and Social Integration in Chilean Policy on Aging	1
Sociodemographic Factors and Adjustment of Daily Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Findings from the SHARE Corona Survey	1
Can Implementing Person-Centered Care Tools Reduce Complaints? Evidence from the Implementation of PELI in Ohio Nursing Homes	1
The Impact of Stigmatization on Social Avoidance and Fear of Disclosure among Older People: Implications for Social Policy Preparedness in a Public Health Crisis	1
Age Differences in Determinants of Self-Rated Health among Recipients of Publicly Funded Home-and-Community-Based Services	1
Leveraging the Contribution of Volunteers: The Critical Role and Economic Value of Volunteers in Older Americans Act Programs	1
Social Participation: A Strategy to Manage Depression in Disabled Populations	1
Domestic Helpers as Frontline Workers in Home-Based Long-Term Care in China: Opportunities and Challenges	1
Informal Caregiver Social Network Types and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience	1
Trajectories of Disability and Long-Term Care Utilization After Acute Health Events	1
Working More and Making Less: Post-Retirement Aged Immigrant Women Care Workers in Canada	1
Distance From Home to Motor Vehicle Crash Location: Implications for License Restrictions Among Medically-At-Risk Older Drivers	1
General and Substantive Accountability in Nursing Home Services: Assessing Messages from the Demand Side and the Supply Side	1
Willingness to Purchase Hypothetical Private Long-Term Care Insurance Plans in a Super-ageing Society: Evidence from Hong Kong	1
“The Real Impacts That AAAs are Making:” Developing Measures of Area Agency on Aging Success	1
Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Law on Caregiving by Older Adults	1
Longitudinal Association Between Perceived Availability of Home- and Community-Based Services and All-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults: A National Cohort Study	1
Community Reintegration of Previously Incarcerated Older Adults: Exploratory Insights from a Canadian Community Residential Facility Program	1
State Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Policies and Health Expenditures by Payer	1
Bridging the Gap between Homelessness in Older Adulthood and Elder Abuse: Considerations for an Age-Friendly Shelter System	1
Managing Age-Related Disability in Indonesia: An Issue That Extends Beyond the Concept of Active Aging	1
Utilization of Long-Term Care Services and the Role of Institutional Trust in South Korea	1
Effects of Pension Eligibility Expansion on Men’s Cognitive Function: Findings from Rural South Africa	1
Divergent Experiences Reported by Rural and Frontier Older Adults Aging in Place	1
Caregivers’ Absenteeism and Its Association With Health Shocks and Functional Impairment Among Persons With Severe Dementia	1
The Potential of Social Policies in Preventing Dementia: An Ecological Study Using Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	1
Practicalities and Yield from Mass Swabbing for COVID-19 in Residential Care Facilities in the South of Ireland	1
Social Participation of Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Turkey	1
Meeting Older Adults’ Food Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons And Challenges from Washington State	1
“They will only remember us during elections”: The culture of government support to Nigerian older adults and policy implications	1
Furthering Productive Aging through Public-Private Sector Alliances: The Case of the Mexican Government and Starbucks Company	1
The Effect of Informal Caregiving on Depression: An Asymmetric Panel Fixed-Effects Analysis of In-Home and Out-Of-Home Caregivers Across Europe	1
Consumer Complaints in Nursing Homes: Analyzing Substantiated Single-Allegation Complaints to Deficiency Citations	1
Household Need and Unmet Need for Caregivers of Older Persons in Thailand	1
Creating Age-Friendly Environments in a Smart Society in China: A Policy Review	1
Developing an Operationalized Framework for Comparing Consumer-Directed Care for Older Adults: Evidence from Expert Survey and Cross-National Comparison	1
Considering Financial Assets When Promoting Sense of Purpose in Older Adulthood	1
Existing Datasets to Study the Impact of Internal Migration on Caregiving Arrangements among Older Adults in China	1
Retiring Unprepared in Abu Dhabi? Predicting Emirati Employees’ Retirement Age and Self-Activation	1
Cross-Border Medical Services for Hong Kong’s Older Adults in Mainland China: The Implications of COVID-19 for the Future of Telemedicine	1
Changes in the Equity of the Long-Term Care System in Korea Based on Coulter Index Differences for the Years 2000, 2008, and 2015	1
Does Phased Retirement Increase Vitality in Older Workers? Findings from a 3‑Year Follow‑Up Panel Study	1
Private Long-Term Care Insurance Ownership in a Simple Choice Environment: Does Financial Literacy Matter?	1
Improving Policy and Practices of Hospice Live Discharge: A Historical Exploration of the Medicare Hospice Benefit	1
Mismatch Between Older Persons’ Generative Concern and Internalized Generative Capacities: Leveraging on Generative Ambivalence to Enhance Intergenerational Cohesion	1