Correlations between Forgetfulness and Social Participation: Community Diagnosing Indicators

Seungwon Jeong, Yusuke Inoue, Katsunori Kondo, Kazushige Ide, Yasuhiro Miyaguni, Eisaku Okada, Tokunori Takeda and Toshiyuki Ojima
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Seungwon Jeong: Department of Community Welfare, Niimi University, Niimi, Okayama 718-8585, Japan
Yusuke Inoue: Faculty of Health and Welfare Science, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Okayama 719-1197, Japan
Katsunori Kondo: Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Kazushige Ide: Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Yasuhiro Miyaguni: Department of Gerontological Evaluation, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan
Eisaku Okada: Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3125, Japan
Tokunori Takeda: Department of Rehabilitation and Care, Seijoh University, Tokai, Aichi 476-0014, Japan
Toshiyuki Ojima: Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3125, Japan

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 13, 1-11

Abstract: We analyzed the relationships between forgetfulness and social participation, social contact, and social support by municipality to develop community diagnosing indicators. The analysis subjects included 105 municipalities that agreed to provide data for the 2013 Survey of Needs in Spheres of Daily Life in Japan ( n = 338,659 people). Forgetfulness as a risk factor for dementia was used as the dependent variable. The variables of social environment factors were (1) social participation, (2) social contact, and (3) social support. The ratio of people responding that they experienced forgetfulness differed among municipalities, with a mean of 19.0% (7.1–35.6%). Higher levels of social participation, social contact, and social support were associated with lower levels of forgetfulness, even after adjusting for age and regional variables. The results of the present study suggest that it is appropriate to use forgetfulness and social participation at least a few times a year in any social activity as community diagnosing indicators. Municipalities could encourage their inhabitants to participate by developing and providing engaging social activities.

Keywords: social participation; social environment; community diagnosing; forgetfulness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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