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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Home-making or home harms: Perceived and experienced tensions between domestic materiality and ageing	86
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	47
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
From older to younger generations: Intergenerational transmission of health-related roles in families with Huntington's disease	19
Inessential objects: Cherished possessions in late life in Indian fiction	18
Queer temporalities and the life course: Trans aging in Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby (2021)	18
Priests aging well: The role of gerotranscendence and its relationships with perceived health status, and life satisfaction among Catholic priests	15
Transing dementia: Rethinking compulsory biographical continuity through the theorization of cisism and cisnormativity	15
Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care	15
Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research	14
The image of old age emerging from place personalization in older adults' dwellings	14
The philosophy of collective memory in the novel “The Buried Giant” by Kazuo Ishiguro	14
A qualitative study of older people living with HIV in Hong Kong: Resilience through downward comparison amidst limited social support	14
Aging together-with: The growing older of humans, non-humans and more-than-humans. A commentary	13
Revitalising sensualities of ageing with Parkinson's through dance	13
The racial and cultural ecology of home and community-based services for diverse older adults	13
Age enterprising: “Old” age on the make in Ghana	12
“It's all about being a woman”: Intersections of multiple (dis)advantages experienced by older women in Tanzania	12
Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults	11
The complex nature of transportation as a key determinant of health in primary and community care restructuring initiatives in rural Canada	11
Age is not just a number: Developing an integrative conceptual framework on age	11
Care-ethical considerations of technology-care-assemblages	10
Towards care-full co-design with older adults: A feminist posthuman praxis	10
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	10
Ageing without senescence: A critical absence in social gerontology?	10

The life course effects of socioeconomic status on later life loneliness: The role of gender and ethnicity	10
Is ageism an oppression?	10
Family member roles in long term care: Lessons for the future from COVID-19	10
Age, subjectivity and the concept of subjective age: A critique	10
Social engagement among older women in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
On the limits of communication: The liminal positioning of older adults and processes of self-ageism and ageism.	9
Doing digital exclusion – technology practices of older internet non-users	9
Stories of home: Aging, intergenerational relations and dementia in Julia Martin's The Blackridge House: A memoir (2019)	9
Editorial Board	9
“Families are a resource, not the enemy”: Canadian family caregivers' experiences of COVID-19 pandemic visitor restrictions	9
“Better be dead than grow older:” A qualitative study on subjective aging among older Koreans	9
Editorial Board	9
Hidden in plain sight: Women and gendered dementia dynamics in the Australian Aged Care Royal Commission	8
Editorial Board	8
Everything lost? On the interaction of queerness and dementia in Axel Ranisch's Dicke Mädchen (2011)	8
“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	8
Editorial Board	8
Communication officers in local authorities meeting social media: On the production of social media photos of older adults	8
Last love: The ‘double standard of ageing’ and women's experience of gender and sexuality at mid-life	7
Regulating the disenfranchised: Reciprocity & resistance under the Mental Capacity Act	7
Aging masculinities in Austria: Social realities and cultural representations	7
Older adult Cubans moving to the Canary Islands (Spain): Migrants' strategies in later life	7
“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19	7
“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	7
“Courage to cobble something new”: Women's queer and creative narratives of bisexuality and ageing	7
A conversational, small-story approach to narrative care for people with dementia living in care institutions: Strategies and challenges	6
Digital life as a cabaret, old chum: A dramaturgical analysis of older digitalised home residents and their wider caring networks	6
Virtual roundtable discussion of ‘Revisioning ageing futures: Feminist, queer, crip and decolonial visions of a good old age’	6
Wedded to the land? Representations of rural ageing masculinities in Irish culture and society	6
Influence of materiality in professional geriatric care: Conceptual, methodological and empirical insights	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
The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study	6
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady: A macabre tale of aging	6
Successful ageing and the spectre of the fourth age in the Netflix TV series Grace and Frankie	6
A secret(ly) aging man who has no time to die: The spectre of aging in the James Bond franchise	6
Old-age lifestyles: Patterns of participation in leisure activities and their associations with different forms of capital	6
Social death of older adults residing in nursing homes in Finland	6
Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life	6
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying	6
The crone and the hydra: Figuring temporal relations to aging code	6
A Bibliotherapeutic discourse on aging and masculinity in continuing care retirement communities	5
Intersectional epistemic tensions associated with building knowledge with LGBTQ+ older adults of color	5
Editorial Board	5
The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others: Gray zones of relationality and the ethics of dementia care research	5
Embodied experiences and existential reflections of the oldest old	5
A qualitative exploration of the lives lived by Irish centenarians	5
Dementia Friendly Communities: Micro-processes and practices observed locally in Queensland Australia	5
Managing a positive impression: Self-presentation among octogenarians	5
Healthy aging, self-care, and choice in India: Class-based engagements with globally circulating ideologies	5
The role of objects in negotiations in convoys of care: Addressing fundamental concerns of informal caregivers	5

On personhood in residential and long-term care centres	5
Editorial for the special issue the growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans	5
Renovate my uterus: Aging queerly through performance art and karaoke	5
Conceptualizing violence in nursing home policy: A citizenship perspective	5
A critical gerontological framing analysis of persistent ageism in NZ online news media: Don't call us “elderly”!	5
‘I am not who I was’: Old age and masculinity in Maximianus Etruscus' elegies	5
Is generativity Erikson’s answer to human ageing in the neoliberal world?	5
Climate transition and climate adaptation: The experiences of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel	5
Radio dramatization of aging in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache	5
The call-bell in residential care homes: Experiences of residents and staff	5
Engaging older people to explore the age-friendliness of a rural community in Northern England: A photo-elicitation study	4
The domestication of remote monitoring: The materialisation of care?	4
Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor	4
Industry visions of technology for older adults: A futures anthropology perspective	4
The medieval biological clock? Gendered reproductive aging in medieval western medicine	4
Mobilities and leisure in later ages: The role of religious tourism in the lives of low-income older women in India	4
Ethics and the impossibility of the consent form: Ethnography in a Danish nursing home	4
Personhood and aging: Exploring the written narratives of older adults as articulations of personhood in later life	4
Negotiations of vulnerability in aging with vision impairment	4
Social media discussions about long-term care and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
What happens behind doors? Exploring everyday indoor activities when ageing in place	4
“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use	4
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city	4
Perceptions of community among suburban and urban-dwelling adults aging in place	4
Experiences of grandfathers as primary caregivers raising grandchildren: An integrative literature review	4
“Carving a future out of the past and the present”: Rethinking aging futures	4
To begin the world anew: Epistolary lessons on aging into old age by 4th earl of Chesterfield	3
Assisted eating in late-stage dementia: Intercorporeal interaction	3
The eight-legged confidant: Narrativizing octopuses and non-human aging	3
The heroic challenge of retirement	3
Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty	3
Applying person-centered research ethics in the design of dementia-specific measures	3
Embodied ageism: “I don't know if you do get to an age where you're too old to learn”	3
“Let me touch him”: Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel	3
Exploring the meaning of home for the older adults: A bibliometric analysis of environmental and psychological needs (1969–2023)	3
Aging in the downtown corridor: Mapping the neighborhood experiences of Seattle's unhoused adults over age 50	3
Outdated and re-configured: Challenging linear conceptualizations of ageing through the case of revived obsolete technologies	3
Facilitated reflection meetings as a relational approach to problem-solving within long-term care facilities	3
Editorial Board	3
“It's your Liangxin that tells you what to do”: Interpreting workplace-induced emotions in a Chinese nursing home	3
Queer futures? Forget it! Dementia, queer theory and the limits of normativity	3
Pain and glory: Narrative (De)constructions of older gay men in contemporary Spanish culture and cinema	3
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’	3
Visual and material representations of ageing, space and rhythms in everyday life	3
Age differences in emotional reactions to ageist memes and changes in age of one's Best Self	3
Ageism and the digital divide in Switzerland during COVID-19: Lessons for the post-pandemic world	3
Ageing non-heterosexual migrants: Towards global sexual citizenship	3
Turning age into agency: A qualitative longitudinal investigation into older jobseekers' agentic responses to ageism	3
Transforming nursing home culture: Opinions of older people. A cross-sectional study in Belgium	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
Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences	2
Ambiguous personhood: Paradoxes of social belonging in Danish nursing home care	2
Aging enacted in practice: How unloved objects thrive in the shadows of care	2
Editorial Board	2
Climate change and population aging: The role of older adults in climate change mitigation	2
Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life	2
Editorial Board	2
Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China	2
I care a lot: A political economic approach to aging	2
A potential conflict between grandparenthood and the third age lifestyle in the Finnish countryside	2
Stories under construction: Exploring meaning-making on a geriatric ward	2
Meaning of working for older nurses and nursing assistants in Sweden: A qualitative study	2
Understanding frailty experiences in Dutch community-dwelling older people: A qualitative phenomenological study	2
Bouncing off Ove: Old men's readings of the novel A Man Called Ove as a cultural representation of ageing masculinity	2
Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings	2
“We never lived together either”: Couples' housing (re-) arrangements in later life	2
The political presence of persons living with dementia in parliament. A qualitative study into the dementia representation work of German parliamentarians	2
Community care and social participation: An ethnography of clubs for older people in Peñalolén (Chile) during and after the pandemic	2
“Sexual activity for me is something else. It's the same as always: Sex aside and our love for each other.” Changes in sexual activity in dementia from the view of spouse-carers'	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
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife	2