A study on the social attributes of elderly residents with actively community activities

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  • Sagara Tomoya
    Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Togawa Kazunari
    Faculty of Policy Informatics, Chiba University of Commerce
  • Tagawa Hiroyuki
    Faculty of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Choe Jae Young
    Faculty of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  • Tsujinaka Yutaka
    School of Political Science and Economics, Tokai University

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  • 活発な地域活動が見られる高齢住民の社会的属性に関する検討

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<p>　In order to achieve healthy aging, it is important for even the elderly to actively participate in community activities. There have already been many studies on the participation of the elderly in community activities, but there have been few analyses focusing on the sociodemographic characteristics of individuals, and the regions have been limited. In this study, we examined the characteristics of elderly people who actively interact with local people and participate in community activities, based on the results of a web-based questionnaire survey conducted among residents in 13 cities across Japan. The results showed that in many of the interactions with others and community activities, there were marked differences depending on the gender of the residents, with women interacting on a daily basis. Men, on the other hand, participate in community activities with clearly defined roles and objectives, and interact with influential people in the community. There were no notable differences in community participation in terms of years of residence, employment status, or educational background. In order to promote community participation among the elderly in today's Japan, which is said to be in the era of 100 years of life, it is necessary to take these gender differences into consideration and use more effective methods.</p>

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