Cooking skills, living alone, and mortality: JAGES cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Living alone without someone to cook meals for them can happen more frequently in aging due to bereavement, divorce, or other family changes. Health risks to older adults due to poor cooking skills may be more pronounced among those living alone. We aimed to examine whether cooking skills are associated with mortality according to cohabitation status in older Japanese people.

Methods

Participants in the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a population-based cohort of independent older adults, were followed for three years (n = 10,647). Cooking skill was assessed using a scale with good validity and modified for Japanese people in the baseline survey. After stratification by living alone or together, participants with high and low cooking skills were matched on

SUBMITTER: Tani Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10636960 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature