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Everyday interactions with others among the old-old living alone in an urban area
2012 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 39-45
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2012 Volume 34 Issue 1 Pages 39-45
In this study, the authors observed everyday interactions with others among seniors living in a Japanese urban area. Home-visit interviews were completed for 440 seniors, aged 75 years or older, living alone in a Suginami City, Tokyo (response rate was 56.2%).
The major findings were as follows: (1) the majority of the respondents had daily interactions with non-kin others, (2) because many of the non-kin others having daily contacts were “neighbors” or “friends”, they were familiar persons who had frequent contacts, (3) the contents of conversation with them were more likely to be light or customary than emotional, and (4) many of the daily interactions with non-kin others were role-based interactions.
