IBRC2016 -
13th International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference

 
 

Greetings – To Realize "Overcome the disabilities"

   (Taki) TAKIZAWA, Shigeo, (Founder / Inventor)
President, International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy
Professor, Biophilia Institute, the Designated and Registered Institute by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Dear colleagues,
On behalf of International Biophilia Rehabilitation Academy, I am pleased to extend my heartfelt greetings to my friends all over the world in holding IBRC 2016.
The IBRC 2016 will be held in Geneva. The purpose of holding is the following two. 1. we inform the fact that “Overcome the disabilities” is possible to World Health Organization (WHO) with the headquarters of Geneva, and the research of intervention techniques are progressing, 2. We are appealing to make research activities in collaboration with WHO in cooperation in order to sublime “Experience to A Science” from now on,
We are doing our best every day enabling the expectation of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and its related corporation, which guided and cooperated the studies usually. And we obtain the support of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and WHO permitted a lecturer's registration this time. We believe that this enterprise was realized by the WHO admitted such efforts and the help of the Ministry. It seems that the first purpose has been attained.
We have continued the study many-year due to the necessity of the rehabilitation medicine restructuring. We clarified the re-acquirement of a walk and/or life independence. And also we clarified the hypothesis and proof of the mechanism of those as much as possible.
Geneva holding in July was the hope of Prof. Suputtitada who is a professor of the Chulalongkorn University of the Kingdom of Thailand and the Chair of ISPRM Women and Health, and who had been designated and had endorsed a chairperson of IBRC 2016 at the beginning. We got hopes and expectant on her who was young and very efficient and full of ambition. It seemed that something happened as a result, she was not able to finish enacting the chairperson of IBRC 2016. However, it was a significant result that we could notice our existence, which promoted the research of restructuring of the rehabilitation medicine in order to enable “Overcome the disabilities” for many-years to ISPRM on the other hand.
Elderly people will increase in number from now on. It becomes the first time for an age pyramid to reverse on a history of mankind. How should we provide for the elderly life? How should the elderly live with fulfilling life? The subjects in social security and the subject in the viewpoint of the self-actualization of a life have also accumulated. We are continuing research of the restructuring of the rehabilitation medicine in order for the elderly to live independently as long as they want. And our research is progressing to a new dimension as the 2nd subject stated at the beginning.
The first IBRC was held with the government of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands together in 2002. My lecture title was "To Expect the Establishment of the New Civilization, Not to Make a Negative Factor to Increase Elderly in that Civilization” as a keynote address. This IBRC 2016, which Prof. Toshiyuki Tanaka of Keio University holds as a chairperson will be a convention which makes this title possible in the sense of truth.
I expect that IBRC 2016 will be a fruitful convention for all of the participants. Furthermore, I expect that it will be a big contribution for human beings. I would like to celebrate this holding from the bottom of my heart with you.
Thank you.

祝辞 - 障害の克服実現に向けて

滝沢茂男

国際バイオフィリアリハビリテーション学会理事長
文部科学省指定研究機関バイオフィリア研究所教授

国際バイオフィリアリハビリテーション学会を代表してIBRC2016開催に当たり、一言ご挨拶申し上げます。
今回の大会はジュネーブで開催されます。開催の目的は次の2つです。1.ジュネーブに本部のあるWorld Health Organization(WHO)へ障害の克服が可能であり、その手法の研究がすすんでいる事実を知らせること、2.今後「経験から科学へ」より一層その内容を高めるにあたり、WHOと共同して研究活動ができるように協調を働きかけることです。
我々は日頃ご指導、ご協力いただいている厚生労働省と同省関連法人のご期待にお応えできるよう、日々力を尽くしております。そして今回は厚生労働省のご支援を得て、WHOから講演者をお迎えすることになりました。第一の目的は達成できたものと思われます。

我々はリハ医学の再構築が必要との立場で、多年研究を続けてきました。歩行の再獲得や生活自立の再獲得事実を明らかにし、可能な限り機序の仮説とその証明を明らかにしています。
7月のジュネーブ開催は、当初大会長を予定していたISPRM女性健康委員長・タイ王国テラコンロン大学アリラット教授の希望でした。私たちは若く有能で、野心にあふれた彼女に期待していました。結果として何か事情があったようで大会長を務めきることができませんでした。しかしその間に、ISPRMへ対して、多年リハ医学の再構築を実現する研究を推進する団体があることを知らせ得たのは一面では大きな成果でした。

今後ますます高齢者が増えます。人類史上初めて人口ピラミッドが逆転する時代になるのです。どのように扶養するか、高齢者が充実した生活をするためにはどうすべきか。社会保障における諸課題や、生命の自己実現の視点における課題も山積しています。
私たちは高齢者がいつまでも自立生活ができるようにリハ医学改革するべく研究を続けております。冒頭に述べた第2の課題として、研究は新たな次元へ進もうとしています。
この学会の最初の大会は2002年開催で、北マリアナ諸島連邦政府との共同開催でした。そこでの私の基調講演は、「高齢者の増加を負の要因としない新たな文明の構築」が題名でした。慶應義塾大学理工学部田中敏幸教授を大会長にお迎えした今回の大会が真の意味で、この表題を可能にする大会になることでしょう。

そして参加者にとり有意義であり、さらに人類に大きな貢献ができることを期待しています。
この開催を皆さんと共に心から祝いたいと存じます。