The 3rd International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference was held on September 16-18, 2004 in Manila. President Arroyo, Republic of the Philippines delivered a congratulatory address1) and her secretary greeted there.
Ms. Venus Ilagan, the chairperson of the Disabled Peoples International (DPI), gave the keynote address. She said that it is important to overcome disability and to live independent living through her experience as disabled people.
The word impairment shows the cause of disability. Although those who the disabled elderly, facilities of those, caregiver and family member as taking it for granted that lived bedridden because who was impairment, should make her advocacy a common understanding.
The study of Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy (BRA) was presented as follows;
We study the new rehabilitation method which enables to improve the physical activity for the disabled elderly on his impairment and to live without becoming bedridden. We explore a reason by an approach from molecular genetics especially and try to spread it. Moreover, we enable it to implement by anybody who learned it to do not the specific person. We explore the influence on the social economy by independent living and a possibility to cut the related expenses in social security expenditure.
We held the open workshop and the Japanese conference in the Tokyo elderly-people research and a welfare promotion foundation on August 7.
The author was assigned chairman of the biophilia rehabilitation Academy’s International Affairs Department due to the founder and the inventor of this research, and the person in charge to hold 1-3 IBRC and substantial international activities by the members of BRA.
The author set own aim on this research in 1987. There was no one understanding person, and he took seven years to obtain the understanding person in a family. It was happy for him that the International Affairs Department chairman was assigned.
In order to advance transdisciplinary research of many domains by the question to the state of the current rehabilitation, the 21st-century rehabilitation study society was organized in 1996, and the 21st century came around, and renamed biophilia rehabilitation Academy from 2001.
We introduce the approach and influence to the society. Please read the following proceeding shown in the reference for details.
