Social participation and the combination of future needs for long-term care and mortality among older Japanese people: a prospective cohort study from the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES)

Objectives Our study aimed to examine the longitudinal association between social participation and both mortality and the need for long-term care (LTC) simultaneously.Design A prospective cohort study with 9.4 years of follow-up.Setting Six Japanese municipalities.Participants The participants were...

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Main Authors: Katsunori Kondo, Shunichi Fukuhara, Sei Takahashi, Toshiyuki Ojima, Sayaka Shimizu, Yosuke Yamamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/11/e030500.full
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