database: models of health promotion for older people

 

Details for: Changing Track at Third Age

 

Country  Austria
Project-number  AT-8
Name of model  Changing Track at Third Age
Name in national language  Changing Track at Third Age
Link to model  http://www.seniorweb.at
Organisation
  • GEFAS Steiermark
Link to organisation  http://www.seniorweb.at
Type of organisation  public
 non-profit
Project manager   Mag. Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
Start  1996-00-00
End  on-going
Relevance of the modelProject addressing a broader theme, interesting lessons to be learned for health promotion of older people (e.g. side-effects on health promotion)
Target groups
  • Older women
Age of target groups
  • 50-55
  • 56-60
  • 61-65
  • 66-70
  • 71-75
  • 76-80
  • 81-85
  • 86-90
Setting
  • Local community
Funded by
  • European Commission
  • Austrian statutory cooperations
  • Own funding
Partner institutions
  • Universität Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  • Associazione Italiana Donne Anziane/Attiva - AIDA, Perugia, IT
  • Italian Senior Expert Service - ISES, IT
  • Volkshochschule Rüsselsheim - Fachbereich Frauenforschung, Rüsselsheim, GER
  • Verein "Anders Leben - anders Wohnen für Jung und Alt e.V.", Mettmann, GER
  • Wissenschaftliche Leitung - Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, AT
City
  • -
Region
  • Styria
Short summary „Changing Track: Shift in direction and reorientation – an educational programme for, of and with older women” is discussing the status of older women in society.
Main objectives
  • To strengthen the attention to special problems of older women in the public/public discussion. These problems are in need of special attention.
Main activities
  • An educational concept with four main parts was designed
  • The parts were designed according to specific experience areas and make a continuous composition of self-awareness and self-knowledge, self-esteem and behavioural competence possible. (1. Biography as a resource, 2. “Leiblichkeit”, 3. Identity as a “new formation of the jewel”, 4. Participation as a donation to society).
Evaluation  no
Description of evaluation Emancipation of older women was reached and is planned to be a design part of other programmes and projects but needs setting specific adaptations (e.g. by country). In Austria, several education programmes were developed, such as “Spurwechsel”, “Herzhafte Frauen” and “Initiative Plattform 50+”.
Main results
  • Emancipation of older women was reached and is planned to be a design part of other programmes and projects but needs setting specific adaptations (e.g. by country). In Austria, several education programmes were developed, such as “Spurwechsel”, “Herzhafte Frauen” and “Initiative Plattform 50+”.
Contact name Mag. Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
Contact email  rosemarie.kurz@yahoo.de
Contact telephone  +43-316-3802964
Contact fax  -
Publications  -
Promoting mental health
  • cognitive issues (e.g. memory training)
Empowerment  yes
Social participation and inclusion
  • lifelong learning, education of older people
Inclusion criteria
More information on inclusion criteria
3. Multi-faceted, holistic
5. Voice of older people The project aims especially at women at an older age. Furthermore the project is for older women, the project is designed by and together with older women.
6. Model involves visible and invisible target groups
7. Diversity
8. Geographical and physical accessibility
9. Well-grounded theoretical approach
10. Gender sensitivity The project aims especially at women at an older age. Furthermore the project is for older women, the project is designed by and together with older women.
11. Cost effectiveness
12. Empowerment
13. Transferability The project was designed and realised in several other EU-countries and is therefore transferable. Furthermore the Austrian project partner transferred the project idea to several alike educational initiatives.
14. Consumer satisfaction
15. Public recognition award
16. Innovative strategy


Background Information on Database

The aim of the second phase of the healthPROelderly project was to collect models of good practice in the area of health promotion for older people. One of the main activities in this project phase was to elicit criteria by which to choose such models in each of the participating countries. The exclusion criteria and inclusion criteria were elicited by all project partners on the basis of the literature overview of health promotion for older people carried out in the first project phase. Project partners searched for models in their countries by: 1) using the literature databases they had compiled; 2) by using health promotion databases and other information available on internet and 3) by consulting their national boards and other experts. More information for download

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