European Journal of Ageing

2016 - 2025

Current editor(s): Marja Aartsen, Susanne Iwarsson and Prof. Dr. Matthias Kliegel

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Volume 22, issue 1, 2025

Navigating life’s twists and turns: characteristics of life events across adulthood pp. 1-14

Sonja Radjenovic, Fiona S. Rupprecht and Jana Nikitin

Distance from home and working memory: daily associations varying by neighborhood environments in community-dwelling older adults pp. 1-14

Minxia Luo, Eun-Kyeong Kim, Robert Weibel, Mike Martin and Christina Röcke

Challenging aged care stigma through communication: discursive responses to stigmatising discourses about aged care work and implications for workers’ mental health pp. 1-14

Asmita V. Manchha, Ken Tann, Kïrsten A. Way and Michael Thai

Older adults know when they have been left out but they respond rationally pp. 1-14

Qiuyi Kong, Nicholas Currie, Kangning Du, John A. Hunter and Ted Ruffman

“Time without you”: Transition to widowhood and its impact on time perspective and attitudes toward the future pp. 1-12

M. Clara de Paula Couto, Yaeji Kim-Knauss, Klaus Rothermund, Helene H. Fung, Thomas M. Hess and Frieder R. Lang

The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: a longitudinal observational study using SHARE data pp. 1-12

Daniëlle Heleen Smit, Johan Rehnberg and Stefan Fors

Childhood adversities and home atmosphere as determinants of resilience in old age: findings from the Helsinki birth cohort study pp. 1-9

Sini Siltanen, Katja Pynnönen, Sini M. Stenroth, Katja Kokko, Markus J. Haapanen, Niko S. Wasenius, Merja K. Laine, Tuija M. Mikkola, Johan G. Eriksson and Mikaela B. Bonsdorff

Household members’ positive personality traits and age stereotypes do not predict perceived expectations for active aging pp. 1-9

Sonja Radoš, Maria K. Pavlova, Klaus Rothermund and Rainer K. Silbereisen

Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds? pp. 1-9

Fiona S. Rupprecht, M. Clara P. Paula Couto, Klaus Rothermund and Jana Nikitin

Optimizing cognitive interventions to improve real-world function for healthy older adults pp. 1-9

Rachel Wu, Tania M. Rodriguez, Bethany P. Tavenner, Isadora Farias Lopes Queiroz, Walter Boot, Jeanine Parisi, Michelle Carlson, Martin Lövdén, Margaret E. Beier and Alan Gow

The association between physical multimorbidity and fall-related injury among adults aged ≥ 50 years from low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-10

Lee Smith, Guillermo F. López Sánchez, Jae Il Shin, Hans Oh, Karel Kostev, Mark A. Tully, Yvonne Barnett, Laurie T. Butler, Nicola Veronese, Pinar Soysal, Louis Jacob and Ai Koyanagi

The potential of depressive symptoms to identify cognitive impairment in ageing pp. 1-11

Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Christos Bountoulis, Everina Katirtzoglou, Mary H. Kosmidis, Kostas Siarkos, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Maria Skondra, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Robert Perneczky, Paraskevi Sakka, Eleni-Zacharoula Georgiou, Μarina Charalampopoulou, Panagiotis Felemegkas, Iracema Leroi, Apostolos Batsidis, Laura Perna, Antonios Politis, Nikolaos Scarmeas and Polychronis Economou

Do publicly funded community physical activity programs for middle-aged and older adults in Ireland work? pp. 1-13

Enrique García Bengoechea and Catherine B. Woods

Trajectories of long-term care entitlements in severely disabled older adults using nationwide Dutch data pp. 1-15

France Portrait, Yvonne Krabbe-Alkemade, Trynke Hoekstra, Kristina Thompson and Hanna Rusticus

How are location and type of caring associated with the carer’s mental health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from SHARE pp. 1-15

Valerie Schaps, Thomas Hansen, Ragnhild Bang Nes and Morten Wahrendorf

Parenthood and life satisfaction in older age: examining the moderating role of social norms and economic vulnerability pp. 1-16

Matthias Pollmann-Schult

Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain pp. 1-17

Maiken Tingvold, Nanna Notthoff, Lisa Borgmann and Anna E. Kornadt

Volume 21, issue 1, 2024

A problem of gendered injustice? Objective and subjective poverty among older women and men across European welfare regimes pp. 1-13

Camilla Härtull and Mikael Nygård

Trends in severe functional limitations among working and non-working adults in Germany: Towards an (un)-healthy working life? pp. 1-13

Johannes Beller, Stefanie Sperlich, Jelena Epping and Juliane Tetzlaff

Determinants of trajectories of informal caregiving in later life: evidence from England pp. 1-13

Giorgio Di Gessa and Christian Deindl

Disability during the last ten years of life: evidence from a register-based study in Austria pp. 1-13

Erwin Stolz, Anna Schultz, Julia Zuschnegg, Franziska Großschädl, Thomas E. Dorner, Regina Roller-Wirnsberger and Wolfgang Freidl

Lifestyle factors and incident multimorbidity related to chronic disease: a population-based cohort study pp. 1-13

Yihui Du, Geertruida H. Bock, Judith M. Vonk, An Thanh Pham, M. Yldau Ende, Harold Snieder, Nynke Smidt, Paul F. M. Krabbe, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Gerton Lunter and Eva Corpeleijn

Association between chronic pain and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-26

Zhenzhi Wang, Zhen Sun and Hui Zheng

The causal relationship between sleep disturbances and the risk of frailty: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study pp. 1-9

Zong-Xiao Lu, Ni Sang, Rong-Chao Liu, Bo-Han Li, Meng-Yao Zhang, Ming-Hui Zhang, Meng-Cheng Cheng and Guo-Cui Wu

How loneliness increased among different age groups during COVID-19: a longitudinal analysis pp. 1-12

Fiona Köster and Oliver Lipps

Social network type contributes to purpose in life among older people, mediated by social support pp. 1-12

Maryam Bakhshandeh Bavarsad and Christine Stephens

Comparing the cross-national impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care received by community-dwelling older adults in 2020 and 2021: restoring formal home care versus polarizing informal care? pp. 1-12

Aviad Tur-Sinai, Netta Bentur, Paolo Fabbietti and Giovanni Lamura

Associations between walking limitations and reported activity destinations among older adults pp. 1-12

Essi-Mari Tuomola, Kirsi E. Keskinen, Taina Rantanen and Erja Portegijs

A focus group study for the design of a web-based tool for improving problem-solving in older adults pp. 1-12

Sabrina Cipolletta, Dario Signorello, Sara Zuppiroli, Alexandra Hering, Nicola Ballhausen, Giovanna Mioni, Matthias Kliegel, Mauro Gaspari and Franca Stablum

Transitions between care networks: a prospective study among older adults in the Netherlands pp. 1-12

Maura K. M. Gardeniers, Martijn Huisman, Erik Jan Meijboom, Emiel O. Hoogendijk and Marjolein I. Broese van Groenou

Prevention of frailty in relation with social out-of-home activities in older adults: results from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe pp. 1-12

Sandra A. Mümken, Enrique Alonso-Perez, Christine Haeger, Julie L. O’Sullivan, Qian-Li Xue, Sonia Lech, Wolfram J. Herrmann and Paul Gellert

Cohort and gender differences in the association between childlessness and social exclusion in old age pp. 1-20

Julia Sauter, Iuliana Precupetu and Marja Aartsen

The role of social network diversity in self-perceptions of aging in later life pp. 1-15

Frauke Meyer-Wyk and Susanne Wurm

Aging in place or aging out of place? Family caregivers’ perspectives on care for older Pakistani migrants in Norway pp. 1-15

Sunita Shrestha, Sanjana Arora, Alistair Hunter and Jonas Debesay

Informing existing technology acceptance models: a qualitative study with older persons and caregivers pp. 1-16

Nadine Andrea Felber, Wendy Lipworth, Yi Jiao (Angelina) Tian, Delphine Roulet Schwab and Tenzin Wangmo

Which support is provided in which country? Patterns among older adults in Europe pp. 1-16

Emanuela Furfaro, Elvira Pelle, Giulia Rivellini and Susanna Zaccarin

Internet self-efficacy moderates the association of information technology ability with successful ageing among older employees in three African samples pp. 1-16

Nestor Asiamah, Sylvester Hatsu, Frank Frimpong Opuni, Faith Muhonja, Confidence Chinwe Opara, Sarra Sghaier and Emelia Danquah

Are changes in sleep problems associated with changes in life satisfaction during the retirement transition? pp. 1-14

Marika Kontturi, Marianna Virtanen, Saana Myllyntausta, K. C. Prakash, Jaana Pentti, Jussi Vahtera and Sari Stenholm

Polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, anticholinergic burden and cognitive outcomes: a snapshot from a community-dwelling sample of older men and women in northern Italy pp. 1-14

Elena Perdixi, Matteo Cotta Ramusino, Alfredo Costa, Sara Bernini, Silvia Conti, Nithiya Jesuthasan, Marco Severgnini and Federica Prinelli

Older caregivers’ depressive symptomatology over time: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe pp. 1-14

Marie Agapitos, Graciela Muniz-Terrera and Annie Robitaille

The use of individual and collective selection, optimisation and compensation (SOC) strategies and their association with work ability among senior workers pp. 1-14

Annette Meng, E. Sundstrup and Lars Louis Andersen

The lifestyle of new middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan described by wearable device: age and gender differences pp. 1-14

Chih-Liang Wang, Cheng-Xue Li and Sheng-Fu Liang

Does social capital enhance political participation in older adults? Multi-level evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey pp. 1-22

Fredrica Nyqvist, Rodrigo Serrat, Mikael Nygård and Marina Näsman

Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-AGE Scale in Singapore pp. 1-11

Rachael Zhi Yi Lee, Winson Fu Zun Yang, Rathi Mahendran and Lidia Suárez

Detecting implicit and explicit facial emotions at different ages pp. 1-11

Giulia Prete, Irene Ceccato, Emanuela Bartolini, Adolfo Di Crosta, Pasquale La Malva, Rocco Palumbo, Bruno Laeng, Luca Tommasi, Nicola Mammarella and Alberto Di Domenico

Duration, numerosity and length processing in healthy ageing and Parkinson’s disease pp. 1-11

Z. Romeo, S. Dolfi, M. D’Amelio and G. Mioni

Subjective social status across the past, present, and future: status trajectories of older adults pp. 1-11

Tim Kuball and Georg Jahn

Job satisfaction declines before retirement in Germany pp. 1-11

Georg Henning, Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Andreas Stenling and Martin Hyde

Toward harmonization of aging and technology research: German adaptation of the mobile device proficiency questionnaire (MDPQ) for older adults pp. 1-11

Anna Schlomann, Hans-Werner Wahl, Laura I. Schmidt, Nicole Memmer, Christian Rietz, Neil Charness and Walter R. Boot

Does the positive association between social relationships and cognition continue until very old age? pp. 1-11

Selina Vogel, Andrés Oliva y Hausmann and Susanne Zank

Multimorbidity patterns and disability and healthcare use in Europe: do the associations change with the regional socioeconomic status? pp. 1-10

Lluís Zacarías-Pons, Oriol Turró-Garriga, Marc Saez and Josep Garre-Olmo

Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany pp. 1-10

Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König and André Hajek

Look on the bright side: the relation between family values, positive aspects of care and caregiver burden pp. 1-10

Larissa Zwar, Hans-Helmut König and André Hajek

Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age pp. 1-10

Tommaso Feraco, Nicole Casali, Elena Carbone, Chiara Meneghetti, Erika Borella, Barbara Carretti and Veronica Muffato

Do middle-aged and older people underreport loneliness? experimental evidence from the Netherlands pp. 1-10

Thijs van den Broek, Jack Lam and Cecilia Potente

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the digital fall preventive intervention Safe Step among community-dwelling older people aged 70 and older pp. 1-10

Saranda Bajraktari, Marlene Sandlund, Beatrice Pettersson, Erik Rosendahl and Magnus Zingmark