Approach to the Disabled Elderly on Rehabilitation

- What is the Takizawa method of Rehabilitation? -

Abstract

Those who are engaged in rehabilitation services in Japan often argue that rehabilitation is not only about functional training today. What is 'holistic rehabilitation of disabled people'? Is it to live by one's self in an inconvenient environment using all the remaining body functions effectively? There are many cases in which disabled people gradually become dysfunctional and must stay in bed for the rest of the life. In this case, do we still call this situation a 'holistic rehabilitation'?

Takizawa, Shigeo