The 21st Century Rehabilitation Research Society (1998 - 2000)
From Care Reliance to Independence
2018 Volume 2018 Issue 1 Pages 7-
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2018 Volume 2018 Issue 1 Pages 7-
An elderly population aged 65 and over was 21 million people in the 2000 year’s edition of the aged society white paper on 1 October 1999, and the rate of them was 16%. Improvement in medical treatment and hygiene and an improvement of a living environment brought Japanese people the best longevity in the world. Whenever the ratio of the elderly to population newly estimates, it has increased. The income of an elderly people household and storage are substantial.
On the other hand, the elderly who received the care needs assessment (by Japanese regulation) on July 25 were announced as 2.8 million people. Although the elderly who need care in 2025 considered in the Ministry of Health and Welfare prediction in January 1997 showed 5.2million people, it will be changed into an increasing number at the case of keeping in the present condition.
The cerebrovascular disease was the first of the cause of death once. At present, it was halved as compared with the 1960s.
If it estimates from statistics, about 80,000 people become the elderly people who need the care which newly has a sequela of cerebrovascular disorder every year. If it was the former, it meant becoming bedridden gradually according to the sequela of cerebrovascular disorder.
Longevity was not only growing older happily healthily. Because longevity was allowed, it might people become bedridden from requiring care and dies, and it would bring the merciless and hard struggle for several years until. The brightness of life fades, and a majority of people die by drowning in suffering. (There was a big accident that many people drowned at the river in Japan at that time.)
We formed the 21st Century Rehabilitation Research Society and studied items to summarize an enforcement situation and effects of the special elderly hospital continuously in order to change this state. Moreover, we clarified the feature of introduced and used devices and the improved situation of indoor move capability.
We advance medical verification of the implementation of the motivative exercise by the Takizawa rehabilitation method and expend effort to the elucidation of the mechanism.
