The Relationships among Psychological Effects of Consuming “shikohin”, Happiness, and Satisfaction:A Focus on Consuming “shikohin” in Being Confronted with Social Life Events (original) (raw)

The Japanese Journal of Personality

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Eating alone among community-dwelling Japanese elderly: association with depression and food diversity

The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2012

Eating alone is an emerging social concern these days along with the background of serious aging population growth and increasing number of single-dwellers in Japan. However, little study is focused eating alone and its relation to the health status of community-dwelling elderly. To clarify the relations between eating alone and geriatric functions such as depression, quantitative subjective quality of life (QOL), activities of daily living (ADL) and dietary status of community-dwelling Japanese elderly. A cross-sectional study. Tosa town, one of the "super-aged" towns in Japan. The study population consisted of 856 community-dwelling elderly aged ≥65 living in Tosa town. Eating alone and living arrangement was defined by the questionnaire. Geriatric functions were assessed by measuring activities of daily living (ADL), depressive symptom using 15-item geriatric depression scale (GDS-15), and quality of life (QOL). Food diversity was investigated as a measure of dietary qu...

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