The 10th Annual Seminar of the 21CJSSG
One-day Seminar: Healthy Sports and Elderly Care in Japan
Chair Organization: 21st century Japan study seminar from gerontology
(
http://21jpss.blogspot.jp)
The members of the chair group are all academic volunteers for broadening social
knowledges and the understandings about the aged in the super-aged society of Japan.
The participants will attend this seminar free of charge, excluding meals. Please e-
mail us before the end of June of this year if you would like to participate in this
annual seminar. (Mailto: yaguchi@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp ; mtokoro@ris.ac.jp)
**If you are planning to attend this seminar, please use the following sheet and send
it by e-mail herewith (see the appendix) before 18 th July, 2016.
Time and Place: The first floor of No. 9 Building, Room B-14 on Shinagawa Campus,
Rissho University (
http://www.ris.ac.jp/en/access/index.html).
Date： 23 July, 2016
Time schedule： 9:30-10:00 Registration: Free of charge
First program: Symposium 1, 10:05 -12:35
The present conditions and further problems of the elderly care in Japan
1. Theme: International comparisons about the changes in measures concerning the care
systems for aged people
Presenter: Mr. Koichi Yaguchi, Ph.D. (Prof. Tokai University)
2. Theme: Present conditions of the care for the institutionalized aged and further problems
in Japan-- -Concerning the insufficient number of elderly homes and the vocational stress of
care providers
Presenter: Ms. Kyoko Nobukawa, MSW. (Lecturer of Japan Welfare Education College )
3. Theme: Community-based measures for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease
Presenter: Mr. Keisuke Sakai, MSW. (Instructor of Hokusei Gakuen University)
4. Theme: The roles of adult children in the care of their elderly parents; Comparisons of
care consciousness of young students toward their elderly parents between Sri Lanka and
Japan
Presenter: Mr. Dhanapala, W.M., Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer in Department
of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Sri Jayewardenapura in Sri Lanka)
Tea break
Lunch time: 12:35-13:25
Second program: Symposium 2, 13:40- 16:10
The present conditions and further problems of healthy sports for middle-aged and aged
people in Japan
1. Theme: The present conditions and further problems concerning the prevalence of
healthy sports for middle-aged and aged people in Japan
Presenter: Mr. Toshio Itaka, (Ph.D. course of sports sciences at Juntendou University)
2. Introduction and practices for the tools of physical exercise for care preventions
Presenter: Highclass Co. Ltd
3. Introduction and practices for the functional fitness test for elderly people, related to
physical ADL
Presenter: Tokai University Health Club and their volunteers
Tea break
Closing ceremony: 16:20-16:50
Comments about the seminar by the chair organizers:
Prof. M. Tokoro (Rissho University, Ph.D.)
Prof. K. Yaguchi (Tokai University, Ph.D.)
Social party (Meals and Drinks) 17:00-19:00 (optional)
Attendance fee： 3,000 yen per person； 1,000 yen per student
(at the campus restaurant)
We are looking forward to your participation.
Sincerely yours,
Organization：21st century Japan study seminar for gerontology
Chair organizers（Koichi Yaguchi, Ph.D. and Masabumi Tokoro, Ph.D.）
