Association between health risks and frailty in relation to the degree of housing damage among elderly survivors of the great East Japan earthquake.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Many survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011 were at risk of deteriorating health, especially elderly people living in disaster-stricken areas. The objectives of this prospective study were: a) to clarify the different lifestyle and psychosocial factors associated with frailty by sex among the non-disabled elderly survivors, and b) to describe the differences in characteristics stratified by the degree of disaster-related housing damage. METHODS:We followed 2261 Japanese survivors aged ≥65 years (45.3% male; mean age, 71.7 years) without disability or frailty who completed a self-administered questionnaire at baseline. All participants completed a baseline questionnaire in 2011 and at least one identical follow-up questionnaire between 2012 and 2015 re

SUBMITTER: Tsubota-Utsugi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001143 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature