About the Authors

Mitsutaka Yakabe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Hosoi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shoya Matsumoto

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shoho Miura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiro Hoshi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Soichiro Iwao

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Japan Society For Dying With Dignity, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihiro Kitamura

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Japan Society For Dying With Dignity, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Medical School, Center for Medical Education, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Akishita

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Sumito Ogawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* suogawa@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.