Potentiality of cosmetic use in the integrated community care system

Abstract

It is 1975 that we gave elderly women cosmetic treatments for the first time as "an daily appearance seminar" at an elderly facility in Iwate prefecture . At the present when nearly 40 years passed, various cosmetic therapies to the difference in life stage and complaint of the woman is suggested. Meanwh ile we clarified that there were a mild effect of the stress, protective eff icacy of the cognitive functional decline also to the woman of a young gener ation using technique of the medical engineering methods, and reported some of results in this society.In this presentation here, I would like to settle the history and results of research of the integrated community care using cosmetic treatment and prospect its current and future condition.