抄録
On behalf of the International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy, I am pleased to extend my greetings to the participants of the 10th anniversary Biophilia conference.
This academy has the mission of restructuring the rehabilitation medicine for establishing the sustainable aged society.
Although the name of Biophilia means ‘the love to a life’, we are putting forward the wish of "Even if being stricken by disability, your life may be further fulfilled while taking advantage of the feeling to individual's independence.
From the time of my first participation in these meeting at the 3rd conference in Germany I have seen a lot of progress and advances in the rehabilitation program and its effectiveness as set forward by the Biophilia International Academy. I chaired the 6th conference in 2008 in Poland where I live. Till then, the international body was a subsystem of the Japanese Rehabilitation Academy. It became an independent organization that we created through the resolution of the Osaka conference of Japan. In order to obtain a continuous support of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the next year on, we replaced it with a nonprofit registered organization.
I work as a director who has a committee of scientific activity, and the responsibility for the organization management along with Professor Takizawa.
My friend, Professor Camillo Di Giulio of Chieti in Italy has kindly agreed to take over and chair this 10th anniversary conference.
We are sincerely convinced that this will be a memorable meeting and as the saying has it “Learning from history, an important movement is born from the effort of a small group".
Let us have a motto for this conference: "Revolution of Hope began".
