Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : Nofuji Yu; Seino Satoshi; Murayama Hiroshi; Yoshida Yuka; Tanigaki Tomomi; Yokoyama Yuri; Narita Miki; Nishi Mariko; Nakamura Masakazu; Kitamura Akihiko; Shinkai Shoji
Preventing frailty is a crucial issue in aging societies such as Japan. In 2011, we launched an action research project in Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, to develop effective community-based strategies for frailty prevention. Our strategy was to introduce community-based frailty prevention classes in every administrative district with the help of the active senior workforce at Silver Human Resources Centers. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of this strategy, which can be called the “Yabu model.”
As a result of evaluation using the PAIREM (Plan, Adoption, Implementation, Reach, Effectiveness, Maintenance) framework, we found that the frailty prevention classes spread widely and continued, and lowered participants’ risk of frailty. These results indicate the Yabu model’s effectiveness, usefulness, and applicability to a different community.