Contents
2024
- Emi Kiyota, Christy Nishita, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Erin Ah Sue, and Helen Turner. “The Ibasho Model of Elder Empowerment and Community Ownership,” Generations Journal, American Society on Aging, Spring 2024
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2023
- Takeshi Aida, Emi Kiyota, Yasuhiro Tanaka & Yasuyuki Sawada. “Building social capital with elders’ leadership through a community hub “Ibasho” in the Philippines and Nepal,” Scientific Reports 13, March 2023
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2022
- Lee, Juheon, Daniel P. Aldrich, Emi Kiyota, Tanaka Yasuhiro, and Yasuyuki Sawada. “Social Capital Building Interventions and Self-Reported Post-Disaster Recovery in Ofunato, Japan,” Scientific Reports 12, June 2022
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2021
- Emi Kiyota “COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution in Elder Care: A Cross Cultural Snapshot,” The Global Aging Network, December 2021
Click here to view the full report. - Emi Kiyota “Elder Care Providers & COVID-19: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” The Global Ageing Network, February 2021
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2020
- “Nepal Pictorial Booklet” was published in September, 2020.
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2019
- Emi Kiyota, Margaret Arnold, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kirsten Borrow and Susan Tan “The Ibasho Toolkit: A Toolkit for Strengthening Community-Driven Preparedness and Resilience,” The World Bank, 2019
Click here to view the full report. - Emi Kiyota “Living with Independence and Purpose,” ETHOS, Issue 20, January 2019
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2018
- Emi Kiyota “Co‐creating Environments: Empowering Elders and Strengthening Communities through Design,” HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, September-October, 2018
This article is published in special edition of the Hastings Center (a prominent journal in bioethics that publishes leading work relevant to health policy and justice), titled “What Makes a Good Life in Late Life? Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies.”
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2016
- Empowering Elders through Community Coalitions for Resilience: The Ibasho Approach – This case study was developed as a part of the ‘Call for Case Studies on Coalition Building’ initiated by the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre.
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2015
- The report: Elders Leading the Way to Inclusive Community Resilience is published – supported by the World Bank. This report introduces the findings from the Ibasho cafe’s impact on the level of social capital and the concept of Ibasho.
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2014
- Ibasho Café booklet was published on the iBooks Store in June, 2014Clicke here to download it.
- Dr. Kiyota, a founder of Ibasho, was involved in write-up of the report “Displacement and older people -The case of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011-.”
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