農山村地域における住民の地域社会に関する知識保有と活用実態

―高齢社会型の地域社会における高齢者の役割と参画―

抄録

Aging society has faced the difficulty of maintaining community environment or succeeding characteristic culture, especially in rural area. The purpose of this paper is to show the new roles and the conditions of social participation for elderly people in the future sustainable community. We investigate the amount of residents' knowledge of community, the way of showing their social management abilities and the reasons for hiding part of them.
To sustain aging community, it is important to evaluate their latent abilities and to arrange the opportunities for showing them. In addition, elderly people themselves need to recognize their new roles of community management.