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Social participation is an important aspect of later life; however, there is no consensus on how to define social participation (Levasseur et al. 2010; Schormans 2014). Two of the most commonly mentioned components or domains of social participation include (1) involvement and (2) activities and interactions (Levasseur et al. 2010; Schormans 2014). Levasseur et al. (2010, p 2148) define social participation as “a person’s involvement in activities that provide interactions with others in a society or a community.” Arguably, social participation can have both subjective and objective dimensions and can be measured quantitatively and/or qualitatively (Schormans 2014).
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Li, Y., Feng, Q., Zhu, H., Dupre, M.E., Gu, D. (2022). Social Participation. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_647-2
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