2018 年 2018 巻 1 号 p. 11-12
The Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy set forth the title as shown and co-hosted the first International Conference with the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands’ (CNMI) government with me a conference chair. There were about 150 participants from the United States and neighboring countries such as the Republic of Palau.
The author presented the actual condition of our research and the theory of civilization at the keynote lecture. The contents of our study are clarified in “Possibility of the biophilia rehabilitation.”
The theory of civilization has to be considered because of the following idea; it is necessary to solve the problems accompanying the coming demographic transition including great subjects, such as philosophy, industrial environment, a policy, etc. which makes possible for the baby boomers who became advanced age to contribute to the society.
The research of the rehabilitation was published at the e-journal of Japan Science and Technology Corporation (State Organization) by five articles from January 31, 2003. The research progress was clarified in this keynote lecture.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHLW) set the population ratio of the elderly aged 65 and over in 2025 to 1 to 5 by the estimate of population in 1975, and introduced the silver city plan.
The author presented own motivation for the study as follows;
i) became the Fujisawa municipal assemblyman in 1979,
ii) expected the arrival of the aged society by baby boomers' aging,
iii) estimated the population dynamics by a computer which new those days, and
iv) proposed enforcement of the policy corresponding to it.
The estimate of the elderly population ratio in Fujisawa in 2025 was presented to the local assembly the result 1 to 4 or more.
Next, the author explained his related content and fact about the rehabilitation for making the aged society expected sustainable.
The regulation of the Health and Medical Service for the Aged was introduced in 1987. The city functional training meeting under the regulation was established from April Chigasaki City in adjoining for the disabled elderly of being home in the same year. The Fujisawa City’s one was established by the coordination with a medical association and was established by accepting only the disabled elderly of a disuse sustentation term from October. The Fujisawa’s meeting was "a functional training meeting in which only those not recovering participate (impairment) " as a lawmaker understanding from the development.
The physiotherapist, Kyoko Takizawa began service at the Fujisawa’s meeting. She rehabilitated the disabled elderly who were diagnosed impairment and was getting for them remarkable results as "those who found the improvement of condition, those who did the social (place of work) return, and those who hint suicide from disability came to tell hope." Many patients gained a walk from bedridden in the Nagaoka Bedridden Hospital by her rehabilitation around the same time.
The effect was published already 2). Besides, Kyoko Takizawa had worked as the PT of the Fujisawa Citizen Hospital. She had performed rehabilitation of the same method collaborating with two helpers for 15,000 patients every year according to the operating report of the hospital.
The author persuaded her that there was a necessity to admit that her performing a rehabilitation was a method.
She (the author’s mother) had not understood it for a long time depending on " my hand is an incantatory hand since I do so that they can walk wholly."
As the years go by, it was important for the author choosing to enforce the research than the future of a politician because the social cognition of a rehabilitation system was required to sustain the aged society. They were the reason and led to holding the first IBRC.
