Age and gender differences in the association between social participation and instrumental activities of daily living among community-dwelling elderly.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although many studies have suggested social participation (SP) has beneficial effects on elderly people's health, most of them failed to deal with paid work. Additionally, few studies have focused on the age effect between SP and older people's health. To investigate whether the association between SP, including paid work, and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), exhibits not only in gender, but also in age among community-dwelling older adults.

Methods

In 2014, we distributed self-administered questionnaires to all community-dwelling elderly aged ≥65 in two medium-sized cities in Nara Prefecture, Japan (n = 32,825). 22,845 residents submitted the questionnaire (response rate, 69.6%). Analyzed subjects were limited to 17,680 persons who had neither depe

SUBMITTER: Tomioka K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5410028 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature