Pet ownership-related differences in medical and long-term care costs among community-dwelling older Japanese

• Yu Taniguchi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: taniguchi.yu@nies.go.jp

  Affiliations Japan Environment and Children’s Study Programme Office, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-2406

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• Yuri Yokoyama,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomoko Ikeuchi,

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

  Affiliation Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Seigo Mitsutake,

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

  Affiliation Research Team for Human Care, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Murayama,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takumi Abe,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satoshi Seino,

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

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hidenori Amano,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mariko Nishi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Hagiwara,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shoji Shinkai,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan, Faculty of Nutrition, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan

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• Akihiko Kitamura,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshinori Fujiwara

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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