Objective:To make a bibliometric analysis of the research status,research hotspot and development trend of tradi-tional Chinese medicine health services for old people in China,so as to provide references for the follow-up research and practice in this field.Methods:The references collected in CNKI,WANFANG,CQVIP and SINOMED from January 1,2013 to October 12,2023 were searched.Excel 2018 and CiteSpace reference visualization tool were used to systematically sort out the relevant re-searches in the field of TCM health services for old people in China from the aspects of publication time,distribution of authors and institutions,and keywords.Results:A total of 1857 valid references were included in this study,and the number of published pa-pers showed a fluctuating growth trendA total of 1857 valid papers were included in this study,and the number of published papers showed a fluctuating growth trend.Among them,the number of references published by 3 authors was≥10,the number of papers published by 4 institutions was≥35,and the cooperation among scholars was mostly limited to internal institutions.The top three provinces with the number of published references are Zhejiang Province(225),Beijing(163)and Guangdong Province(145),and the number of published papers in 5 regions is less than 10.In addition,the core journals included a total of 300 articles.Exclu-ding the keywords that have been used for retrieval,the keywords with frequency≥50 and centrality≥0.1 include health manage-ment,health education,hypertension,quality of life,traditional Chinese medicine constitution,traditional Chinese medicine nurs-ing,influencing factors,and elderly care institutions.Keywords with emergent intensity≥5 were combination of medical care and behavior.Conclusion:Traditional Chinese medicine health service for old people has become the focus of scholars,but the author cooperation is mostly limited to the internal institutions,and there are obvious differences in the quality of documents issued by dif-ferent institutions.At present,the hot topics in this field are health education,TCM constitution identification,nursing personnel training,combination of medical and nursing,etc.
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