ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2018
Eating Alone Yet Living With Others Is Associated With Mortality in Older Men: The JAGES Cohort Survey.
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- How Does the Frequency of Eating-Alone among Older People in Korea Affect Their Health and Dietary Behavior?Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Assessing Healthy Aging Score and Its Association With All-Cause Mortality: Findings From the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Eating alone and weight change in community-dwelling older adults during the coronavirus pandemic: A longitudinal study.Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2022Article
- Mortality risk in older Japanese people based on self-reported dyslipidemia treatment and socioeconomic status: The JAGES cohort study.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Interaction of Eating Status and Dietary Variety on Incident Functional Disability among Older Japanese Adults.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2022Article
- Prediction of 11-year incidence of psychophysically dependent status or death among community-dwelling younger elderlies: from an age-specified community-based cohort study (the NISSIN project).Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Association of Eating Alone With Depression Among Older Adults Living Alone: Role of Poor Social Networks.Journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Eating Alone or Together among Community-Living Older People-A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Cross-national comparison of social isolation and mortality among older adults: A 10-year follow-up study in Japan and England.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2021Article
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- A qualitative study on the reasons for solitary eating habits of older adults living with family.PloS one · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Food Environment and Dementia Incidence: the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study Cohort Survey.American journal of preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Living with Family yet Eating Alone is Associated with Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Kashiwa Study.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2019Article
- Neighborhood food environment and mortality among older Japanese adults: results from the JAGES cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Article
- Eating Alone is Differentially Associated with the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Korean Men and Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
Objectives: Eating by oneself may be a risk factor for poor nutritional and mental statuses among older adults. However, their longitudinal association with mortality in relation to coresidential status is unknown. Method: We conducted a 3-year follow-up of participants in the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a population-based cohort of 65 years or older Japanese adults. We analyzed mortality for 33,083 men and 38,698 women from 2010 to 2013 and used. Cox regression models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) for mortality. Results: A total of 3,217 deaths occurred during the follow-up. Compared with men who ate and lived with others, the HRs after adjusting for age and health status were 1.48 (95% confidence intervals [CI]: 1.26-1.74) for men who ate alone yet lived with others and 1.19 (95% CI: 1.01-1.41) for men who ate and lived alone. Among women, the adjusted HR was 1.18 (95% CI: 0.97-1.43) for women who ate alone yet lived with others and 1.10 (95% CI: 0.93-1.29) for women who ate and lived alone. Discussion: A setting in which older adults eat together may be protective for them. Promotion of this intervention should focus on men who eat alone yet live with others.
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