Yoshinori Fujiwara to Speak at the 2018 Conference on Aging & Society

  • 2018-05-08

We are happy to announce that Yoshinori Fujiwara will be speaking at the Aging & Society: Eighth Interdisciplinary Conference.

Yoshinori Fujiwara graduated from the school of medicine in Hokkaido University and received his degree from a graduate school at Kyoto University. He is a team-leader of the Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. He has developed an intergenerational program, REPRINTS, at public elementary schools since 2004. Based on the findings, he demonstrated long-term effects of the intergenerational program on functional capacity among senior volunteers and social capital. Also, he has conducted several community-based longitudinal studies and promoted prevention programs for social isolation and cognitive decline among older adults. He is vice-president of Japan Society for Intergenerational Studies and NPO Japan Intergenerational Unity Association.

Learn more about the 2018 Conference here.