Social participation and the prevention of functional disability in older Japanese: the JAGES cohort study.

Social participation and the prevention of functional disability in older Japanese: the JAGES cohort study.

We examined the relationship between incident functional disability and social participation from the perspective of number of types of organizations participated in and type of social participation in a prospective cohort study.The study was based on the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES)...

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Main Authors: Satoru Kanamori, Yuko Kai, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, Hiroshi Hirai, Kokoro Shirai, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Kayo Suzuki, JAGES Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4055714?pdf=render

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