QIN Xia 1,2 , GUO Shuyan 1 , YANG Wei 1 , DONG Siping 1,3,4
  • 1. National Institute of Hospital Administration, National Health Commission, Beijing 100044, P. R. China;
  • 2. Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China;
  • 3. School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, P. R. China;
  • 4. Health Research Institute, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350004, P. R. China;
DONG Siping, Email: sipingd@163.com
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Objective  To analyze the advancement and trends of English literature on elderly integrated care, and provide a reference for related research and practice in China. Methods  Web of Science database was searched for English literature on elderly integrated care published between 1977 and 2000, and then CiteSpace software was applied to analyze and graphically present the articles to understand the chronological development, publishing institutions, research hotspots, key articles and so on. Results  A total of 1177 English research papers on elderly integrated care were included. The yearly quantity of articles increased significantly since 2016. More than 100 articles had origin in the Unite State of America, the Netherland, the United Kingdom, and Canada, respectively; the organizations of those researches were mainly single programs, and the research fields were relatively scattered. The high-frequency keywords of these articles were health care, quality of life, primary care, home care, community, chronic disease, long term care, mental health, etc, and the burst terms were long term care, case management, quality of life, community, rehabilitation, telehealth, all inclusive care, etc. According to the centrality of co-citation clustering, the top one article was World Report on Ageing and Health published by the World Health Organization. Conclusions  Elderly integrated care has been paid increasing international attention. In recent years, integrated care, transitional care, case management and telecare have become research hotspots. With the key policies of people-centred and integrated health services, primary care, and community-level interventions, typical countries have developed basic models of elderly integrated care. The above theories and experiences can provide references for the practice of elderly integrated care in China.

Citation: QIN Xia, GUO Shuyan, YANG Wei, DONG Siping. Bibliometric and visual analysis of English literature on integrated elderly care and medical services with CiteSpace software. West China Medical Journal, 2021, 36(12): 1649-1656. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202109046 Copy

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