About the Authors

Mariko Tanimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

m-tanimoto@thcu.ac.jp, tanimotomariko007gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Faculty of Healthcare, Tokyo Healthcare University, Tokyo, Japan

Norihiro Okamura

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Medical Social Worker, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

Kaku Sawada

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

Tomofumi Igarashi

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keiwakai Nishioka Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

Mitsunori Nishikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Palliative Care, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan, Aioi Geriatric Health Services Facility, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.