Eating alone and depression in older men and women by cohabitation status: The JAGES longitudinal survey

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1019-1026

  Tani, Yukako ^a   Sasaki, Yuri ^b   Haseda, Maho ^a   Kondo, Katsunori ^b   Kondo, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

depressive symptoms; Eating alone; living alone; older people

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHABITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING ALONE; EATING HABIT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERY ELDERLY; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84947705925     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afv145     Document Type: Article

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