2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Building an intergenerational exchange program using vacant houses

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Project/Area Number	19K11119
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 58080:Gerontological nursing and community health nursing-related
Research Institution	Yamanashi Prefectural University
Principal Investigator	Watanabe Yuko 山梨県立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (40279906)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	杉山歩山梨県立大学, 国際政策学部, 教授 (20586606) 安藤勝洋山梨県立大学, 国際政策学部, 教授 (20424294) 小山尚美山梨県立大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (80405117) 茅野久美山梨県立大学, 看護学部, 講師 (20816433) 和田典子山梨英和大学, 人間文化学部, 研究員 (60764321)
Project Period (FY)	2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywords	世代間交流 / 空き家 / 高齢者 / 大学生 / 地域住民
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study aimed to build a program that can implement ongoing intergenerational exchange using vacant houses. After clarifying social contributions, intergenerational exchanges, and awareness of the actual conditions of vacant houses in the community of residents living near vacant houses and university students, elderly community residents and students worked together to maintain vacant houses as activity bases. As they planned, implemented, and evaluated programs that communicate community characteristics (appealing points) and promote health for the elderly, natural multigenerational exchange was established through dialogue. Although the study was impacted greatly by the COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out during the study period, it became clear that using vacant houses in the community with multiple generations working together through dialogue to plan and implement a variety of projects led to a natural and ongoing intergenerational exchange program.
Free Research Field	老年看護学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	本研究では、日本一空き家率の高い山梨県において、地域で生活する高齢者と大学生（若者）が、身近にある空き家を活用して、協働事業の企画・運営を一から行った。その過程で、近隣住民も含めて対話の機会を多く持つことができ、参加者が協働した街づくりに対する意識を醸成することに繋がった。単発の活動プログラムではなく、多世代が対話の中から様々な事業を協働で企画・運営することで、自然で継続的かつ発展性のある世代間交流プログラムが定着できたことは、社会的な意義が大きいと考える。