2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Befriending activities and social isolation among older people in rural mountainous area.
| Project/Area Number |
22530637
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Social welfare and social work studies
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| Research Institution | Nihon Fukushi University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAITO Masashige 日本福祉大学, 社会福祉学部, 准教授 (70548768)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
PAKU Yumi 日本福祉大学, アジア福祉社会開発研究センター, 主任研究員 (10533383)
SHIMIZU Yutaka 日本福祉大学, 地域ケア研究推進センター, 研究フェロー (00073015)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 高齢者 / 社会的孤立 / 中山間地域 / 地域福祉 / 小地域ネットワーク活動 |
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| Research Abstract |
A secondary analysis of the data showed that social isolation in rural mountainous area was closely associated with low ADL, which indicated a major limitation of the conventional salon-activity approach. We developed a data management system whose unit is a dyad between older people in need of assistance and volunteers who befriend and visit them. This system revealed that, in the subject area, befriending activities have unfolded beyond same-gender and/or similar-age pairs. Our results suggest that promoting the scale and frequency of neighborhood-level befriending activities may contribute to mitigate social isolation among older people.
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