Housing tenure is an important aspect to determine health. However, even though renters tend to have more socioeconomic disadvantages than homeowners, mortality risk between private and public renters compared with homeowners remains unc...
Yu-Ru Chen   Masamichi Hanazato   Masashige Saito   Chie Koga   Yoko Matsuoka   Hiroaki Yoshida   Katsunori Kondo   
Health & place 86 103223-103223 2024年3月
Japan's population has been aging steadily, evidenced by it spending JPY 11 trillion (USD 110 billion) on annual long-term care (LTC) costs in 2021. In this context, understanding the factors influencing LTC costs has become increasingly vital. Al...
Yuta Mori   Taishi Tsuji   Ryota Watanabe   Masamichi Hanazato   Yu-Ru Chen   Katsunori Kondo   
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 24(11) 1677-1682 2023年11月
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between subjective built environment and the onset of frailty in older adults living in the community. In addition, we examined whether daily walking time, depressive symptom...