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The Effect of High and Low Life Purpose on Ikigai (a Meaning for Life) among Community-Dwelling Older People-A Cross-Sectional Study
- Source :
- Geriatrics, Volume 6, Issue 3, Geriatrics, Vol 6, Iss 73, p 73 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to reveal how high or low life purpose is related to QOL and ikigai (a meaning for life). Ikigai is “a sense of purpose and motivation in the daily lives of older people, a sense that they are capable and meaningful to their families and others, and that they should be”. Eighty-one community-dwelling older people (23 male and 58 female, mean age 77 ± 5.2 years) participated of their own will. The following items were measured: dementia test, exercise habits, life purpose, ikigai, and QOL. In the multivariate analysis of high and low life purpose, only ikigai was found to be related. In the multivariate analysis of ikigai, life purpose was also the most relevant, indicating that life purpose and ikigai are strongly interrelated. To improve QOL, it is also necessary to take into account life purpose in addition to the current nursing care prevention.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Aging
Health (social science)
Multivariate analysis
Cross-sectional study
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Nursing care
0302 clinical medicine
life purpose
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Meaning (existential)
Dementia test
business.industry
RC952-954.6
ikigai
Mean age
030227 psychiatry
care prevention
Geriatrics
Life purpose
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Older people
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23083417
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....106732c8884879e04653beefbca0c6f0