Forum members interested in old-age issues are invited to this session

In commemoration of TMIG’s designation as the WHO collaboration centre 3rd East Asia-West Pacific Region Workshop on Ageing Society and Elderly Care:
Addressing the Future of the Fastest Ageing Countries 1. Date : 18th February, 2012 (10:00am to 5:30pm, reception 5:40pm ~) 2. Venue ：4th floor conference room, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology 3.
Program

＜Morning Session>
10:30~10:40 Opening Statement
Masaaki Matsushita, MD, PhD. (President, TMGHI G)
10:40～11:40 Key note speech
John Beard, MBBS, PhD.（Director, Dept.
of Ageing and Life Course and Dept. of Gender, Women and Health, WHO）
11:40~12:30 Luncheon
12:30~13:10 Familiarization Tour （Brain Bank）

＜Workshop Session＞
13:10~13:40 Report (1) Siriphan Sasat, PhD., RN.
(Associate Professor,
Faculty of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University)
13:40~14:10 Report (2) Bo Youl Choi MD, MPH, PhD.
(Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine, Hanyang University College of
Medicine)
13:40~14:40 Report (3) Chao Agnes Hsiung, PhD.
(Director, Institute of
Population Health Sciences, National Health Research
Institute)
14:40~15:00 Coffee break
15:00~15:30 Report (4) Thang Leng Leng, PhD.
(Professor, Japanese
Studies, The National University of Singapore)
15:30~16:00 Report (5) Yoshinori Fujiwara, MD., PhD.
(Theme Leader,
Research Team for Social Participation and Community Health, TMIG)
16:00~16:30 Report (6）John Creighton Campbell, PhD.
(Professor
Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Michigan, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Gerontology, The University of Tokyo)
16:30~17:00 Discussion

＜Session on Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake＞
17:00~17:20 Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake ：
Ryutaro
Takahashi, MD., PhD. (Vice Director, TMIG)
17:20~17:40 Closing remarks Hideki Ito,
MD., PhD.
(President, TMGH)

TMIG is at 35-2 Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-0015, Japan For a map and directions:
http://www.tmig.or.jp/e_about/e_map.html

For more information, please get in touch with Masaya Shimmei, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Telephone : 03-3964-3241 (ext 3116)
e-mail : mshimmei[at]tmig.or.jp