Distance to retail stores and risk of being homebound among older adults in a city severely affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 478-484

  Hirai, Hiroshi ^a   Kondo, Naoki ^b   Sasaki, Ryohei ^c   Iwamuro, Shinya ^d   Masuno, Kanako ^e   Ohtsuka, Rika ^f   Miura, Hisayuki ^f   Sakata, Kiyomi ^c  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Health Promotion   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Built environment; Disaster; Homebound; Japan; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TSUNAMI; CITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISASTER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOMEBOUND PATIENT; INTERVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84929150997     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu146     Document Type: Article

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