| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A standard procedure for creating a frailty index | BMC Geriatrics | 2008 | 2,202 |
| 2 | What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions | BMC Geriatrics | 2017 | 1,706 |
| 3 | Frailty and post-operative outcomes in older surgical patients: a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 654 |
| 4 | Predicting nursing home admission in the U.S: a meta-analysis | BMC Geriatrics | 2007 | 633 |
| 5 | Is the Timed Up and Go test a useful predictor of risk of falls in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta- analysis | BMC Geriatrics | 2014 | 615 |
| 6 | Frailty, fitness and late-life mortality in relation to chronological and biological age | BMC Geriatrics | 2002 | 560 |
| 7 | A critical review of the long-term disability outcomes following hip fracture | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 538 |
| 8 | Predicting ADL disability in community-dwelling elderly people using physical frailty indicators: a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2011 | 479 |
| 9 | Sarcopenia in daily practice: assessment and management | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 468 |
| 10 | Effects of physical exercise interventions in frail older adults: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials | BMC Geriatrics | 2015 | 461 |
| 11 | Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools | BMC Geriatrics | 2006 | 445 |
| 12 | Relationship between the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-mental State Examination for assessment of mild cognitive impairment in older adults | BMC Geriatrics | 2015 | 414 |
| 13 | The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond | BMC Geriatrics | 2007 | 399 |
| 14 | A Frailty Instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) | BMC Geriatrics | 2010 | 368 |
| 15 | Nutritional determinants of frailty in older adults: A systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2017 | 363 |
| 16 | Anticholinergic burden quantified by anticholinergic risk scales and adverse outcomes in older people: a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2015 | 358 |
| 17 | Prevalence of anaemia in older persons: systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2008 | 356 |
| 18 | Measures of frailty in population-based studies: an overview | BMC Geriatrics | 2013 | 352 |
| 19 | A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale | BMC Geriatrics | 2020 | 333 |
| 20 | Prevalence of frailty and its ability to predict in hospital delirium, falls, and 6-month mortality in hospitalized older patients | BMC Geriatrics | 2014 | 278 |
| 21 | Systematic review of information and support interventions for caregivers of people with dementia | BMC Geriatrics | 2007 | 276 |
| 22 | Validity of a novel computerized cognitive battery for mild cognitive impairment | BMC Geriatrics | 2003 | 263 |
| 23 | Environmental risk factors for dementia: a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 259 |
| 24 | Recent trends in chronic disease, impairment and disability among older adults in the United States | BMC Geriatrics | 2011 | 253 |
| 25 | The feasibility of whole body vibration in institutionalised elderly persons and its influence on muscle performance, balance and mobility: a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN62535013] | BMC Geriatrics | 2005 | 252 |
| 26 | A meta-review of stress, coping and interventions in dementia and dementia caregiving | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 251 |
| 27 | Symptom burden in community-dwelling older people with multimorbidity: a cross-sectional study | BMC Geriatrics | 2015 | 239 |
| 28 | The COACH prompting system to assist older adults with dementia through handwashing: An efficacy study | BMC Geriatrics | 2008 | 238 |
| 29 | Effects of physical activity and exercise on the cognitive function of patients with Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis | BMC Geriatrics | 2019 | 236 |
| 30 | Physical, cognitive, social and mental health in near-centenarians and centenarians living in New York City: findings from the Fordham Centenarian Study | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 233 |
| 31 | Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF) | BMC Geriatrics | 2019 | 232 |
| 32 | Smoking, dementia and cognitive decline in the elderly, a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2008 | 228 |
| 33 | Cognitive and memory training in adults at risk of dementia: A Systematic Review | BMC Geriatrics | 2011 | 228 |
| 34 | Effects of Ginkgo biloba in dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis | BMC Geriatrics | 2010 | 225 |
| 35 | A cross-sectional study of the association between dynapenia and higher-level functional capacity in daily living in community-dwelling older adults in Japan | BMC Geriatrics | 2017 | 218 |
| 36 | Pain assessment for people with dementia: a systematic review of systematic reviews of pain assessment tools | BMC Geriatrics | 2014 | 210 |
| 37 | Influence of combined physical and cognitive training on cognition: a systematic review | BMC Geriatrics | 2016 | 197 |
| 38 | Interventions to address social connectedness and loneliness for older adults: a scoping review | BMC Geriatrics | 2018 | 197 |
| 39 | Physical function and self-rated health status as predictors of mortality: results from longitudinal analysis in the ilSIRENTE study | BMC Geriatrics | 2008 | 196 |
| 40 | The importance of social support in the associations between psychological distress and somatic health problems and socio-economic factors among older adults living at home: a cross sectional study | BMC Geriatrics | 2012 | 190 |
| 41 | What do we know about frailty in the acute care setting? A scoping review | BMC Geriatrics | 2018 | 188 |
| 42 | Optimising costs in reducing rate of falls in older people with the improvement of balance by means of vestibular rehabilitation (ReFOVeRe study): a randomized controlled trial comparing computerised dynamic posturography vs mobile vibrotactile posturography system | BMC Geriatrics | 2019 | 187 |
| 43 | The role of gender in the association between personality and task priority in older adults’ dual-tasking while walking | BMC Geriatrics | 2018 | 186 |
| 44 | Influences of service characteristics and older people’s attributes on outcomes from direct payments | BMC Geriatrics | 2021 | 182 |
| 45 | Older adults are mobile too!Identifying the barriers and facilitators to older adults’ use of mHealth for pain management | BMC Geriatrics | 2013 | 179 |
| 46 | The association between timed up and go test and history of falls: The Tromsø study | BMC Geriatrics | 2007 | 178 |
| 47 | Dual-tasking and gait in people with Mild Cognitive Impairment. The effect of working memory | BMC Geriatrics | 2009 | 177 |
| 48 | Foot pressure distribution during walking in young and old adults | BMC Geriatrics | 2005 | 175 |
| 49 | Inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug events in older people | BMC Geriatrics | 2009 | 171 |
| 50 | An overview of co-morbidities and the development of pressure ulcers among older adults | BMC Geriatrics | 2018 | 170 |
