Social participation reduces isolation among Japanese older people in urban area: A 3-year longitudinal study

• Manami Ejiri ,

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

  * E-mail: ejiri@tmig.or.jp

  Affiliations Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3544-4587

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• Hisashi Kawai,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3015-6041

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• Yoshinori Fujiwara,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazushige Ihara,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan

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• Yutaka Watanabe,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hirohiko Hirano,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hun Kyung Kim,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kaori Ishii,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

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• Koichiro Oka,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

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• Shuichi Obuchi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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