As the Conference Chair, I am pleased with holding the Second International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference and welcome you to Windsor for it.
Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy is a Japanese Non-Profit Organization for the diffusion and study of Biophilia Rehabilitation that consists of the Takizawa program for rehabilitation, Motivative exercise and home care.

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People say, "A way can be constructed after a person had walked".
People say, "The authority is not an authority from the beginning".

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This is an interim report of the research done in 2002-2003. We have been researching the reality and the future consumer education of elderly as well as elderly with slight dementia. We did the questionnaire investigation and the evaluation for experiments.
I report about those contents, an interim result and the future way of advancing it.

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On behalf of Japan Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy, I am pleased to announce to my Canadian friends.

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The second international conference is held with the support of California State University Northridge, Center on Disabilities (CSUN COD) -a very famous organization worldwide, the City of Windsor and the Technical Aids Association, Japanese National Foundation (TAA).
Mr. Takizawa has been trying to make a rehabilitation program of his mother, Ms. Kyoko Takizawa (RPT) performing systematize and socialize many years.

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Many supporters got together due to sympathizing with the zeal of Mr. Takizawa who had hoped for the elderly to live a full and vigor life.
An individual technique is in the limelight to receive public subsidies.

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Japan has evolved into a society of super-aging population and with fewer children at the fastest rate ever experienced by any country in the world. The rapid swell spreads out in the medical treatment, welfare, economy, politics and ells in our country.
Today flexible new ideas are necessary for us to cope with these changes without holding to older values.

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I have the honored of writing this message as the Co-chairman of the 2002 First Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands International Conference on Assistive Technology/International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference. This first-ever event was held on the Western Pacific Island of Saipan, a US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

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I have stated our successes of The Sixth Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference that was held in 2002 at Keio University where I had served as the Vice Chair.
From the viewpoint of sharing knowledge and wisdom between many universities, the communication between the rehabilitation medicine and my expertise of neural network computing has been established.

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I am so honored to be a part of the Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy of Japan since its mission is to enable the elderly and people with disabilities to be independent, productive and integrated in the society.

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In addition to modern sports, we have taken contemporary sports in the direction for learning physical education (PE) at this school. We have considered the following 3 points for a course of study.
We report about increasing of the fulfillment and satisfaction for the each years' students of the PE class in this presentation.

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This is the interim report for determination of Takizawa Program's effectiveness, held at welfare facilities by randomized controlled test (RCT). 25 members in the exercise group and 23 members in the control group, all of them were women.
Changes were not seen among the two in the degree of care, FIM and ROM.

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Until now, performance analysis device using camera was developed for those who gained independent walking in the parallel bars. Correspondingly we took the images of walking by cameras, and approached to measure the level of recovery through image analysis. In these cases, some therapists could get into images, and it is not able to measure necessarily all the time. Also, there are approaches to take the walking data by floor reaction force through walking and the measurement of loading of parallel bars, but its effectiveness is poor. Thereon, to generalize this technique, we propose a measuring system a degree of recovery for walking form unsteady gait by him/her self by analyzing dynamic behavior of the weight, using time historical data of floor reaction force during walking and camera images [WUGOAD].

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The degree of the evaluation for function recovering by Takizawa program can be acknowledged objectively and thereon be compared to data of before-after trials of the same patient and/or the data of the patients mutuality by quantifying it. We report the development and the operation result of the Lower extremities function training and measuring device [LEFTM] that has a rehabilitation training device in daily use combined, is able to examine a quantitative evaluation, and also enables to compare the infrared photograph data of before-after, that was developed by the cooperative research with Kanagawa Industrial Technology Research Institute1).

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To maintain healthy life, interdisciplinary intervention including not only physical but also mental function should be necessary. So we investigated the relevance between the result of consumption practice and the physical functions, or with a mental depressive condition, and considered if these evaluation measures were appropriate for the fragile elderly and the elderly with slight dementia. We report that result.

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We report the improvement study of Life Activity Evaluation (1), which had been developed through our previous study (2) by the grant. We emphasized the statistic processing for analyzing it in the future and the consumption activity that was important for living at home with a little care for that improvement.

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Elderly cases offered Takizawa-Program as one of the rehabilitation techniques were evaluated statistically. We obtained four factors by factor analysis and classified into six groups by cluster analysis, and then extracted some specific cases. Further, several items in the FIM were confirmed to be significantly effective.

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We are delighted to be the host locale for this important international gathering, and we are especially pleased that Mr. Takizawa Shigeo, the founder and chief researcher of the Biophilia Institute, is a former City Council member from Windsor's twin city of Fujisawa, Japan.

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