What lifestyles are risk factors for low well-being of healthy elderlies dwelled in a local city in super-aging Japan? ―Kizugawa cohort study―

Akiko Hoshino; Nobuhito Ishikawa; Mai Tanaka; Kanae Usui; Michiko Komata; Miho Shizawa; Toshiki Katsura

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What lifestyles are risk factors for low well-being of healthy elderlies dwelled in a local city in super-aging Japan? ―Kizugawa cohort study―

VernacularTitle:What lifestyles are risk factors for low well-being of healthy elderlies dwelled in a local city in super-aging Japan? ―Kizugawa cohort study―
Author: Akiko HOSHINO ¹ ; Nobuhito ISHIKAWA ² ; Mai TANAKA ² ; Kanae USUI ¹ ; Michiko KOMATA ² ; Miho SHIZAWA ¹ ; Toshiki KATSURA ²
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1. Graduate School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
2. Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
Keywords: well-being; risk factors; elderly; health practices; cohort study
From:Journal of Rural Medicine 2020;15(3):73-84
CountryJapan
Language:English
Abstract: The purpose of this cohort study is to clarify the risk factors of low well-being of elderly people who residing in a local city of a super-aging country, Japan.Subjects are people, who have selected randomly from healthy elderly people resided in Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture, in 2010, followed until 2015. Question survey was conducted in both year, and questionnaire consisted of items such as basic attributes, lifestyles (health practices, consultation behaviors, social activities and so on) and well-being (WHO-5). In analysis we made multi-logistic regression analysis using lifestyle variables as an independent variable and well-being as a dependent variable.The results were as follows.1. Risk factors were not to exercise, knowledge of appropriate diet, subjective feeling of stress for at least a month, not to participate in voluntary activities, age and bad subjective feeling of health.2. Risk factors in regard to changes of lifestyles using good-good lifestyles as a reference were sustainment of having no time for hobby or relaxation, sustainment or deterioration of subject feeling of stress for at least a month, sustainment or deterioration of having no time for relaxation and deterioration of having no activities with pleasure or aim. A factor promoting well-being is to have more frequencies for going out home.This study shows that in a longevity society it is important for community-dwelling elderly Japanese to have good health practices, appropriate consultation behaviors and good social activities for the purpose of keeping good well-being, and that these results are contributed to health promotion policy for community-dwelling elderly people.