database: models of health promotion for older people

 

Details for: Active and healthy in generational networks

 

Country  Austria
Project-number  AT-2
Name of model  Active and healthy in generational networks
Name in national language  Aktiv und Gesund im Generationenverbund
Link to model  http://www.seniorweb.at/pages/jung_ alt/akt_ges.html
Organisation
  • GEFAS Steiermark - Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Alterswissenschaften und des Seniorenstudiums an der Universität Graz
Link to organisation  http://www.seniorweb.at
Type of organisation  public
 non-profit
Project manager  Mag. Dr. Rosemarie Kurz
Start  1998-01-01
End  on-going
Relevance of the modelInnovative project on health promotion for older people
Target groups
  • Older workers
  • Younger and older people
  • Older men
  • Older women
Age of target groups
  • 50-55
  • 56-60
Setting
  • City
Funded by
  • Land Steiermark
  • Steirische Gemeinden
  • Volunteer work
Partner institutions
  • ASKÖ Steiermark (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sport und Körperkultur), Referat für Fitneß und Gesundheitsförderung
City
  • Different districts in Styria
Region
  • Styria
Short summary “Active and healthy in generational bonds” is an intergenerational project of health promotion and prevention. Its aims are to connect the generations through shared physical and playful activities.
Main objectives
  • Fostering a mutual understanding through physical activities of the generations
  • Fair-play in dealing with one another
  • Raising awareness for health promotion in the lifecourse
  • Activation of health resources and self-help potentials
  • Increasing QOL with the help of physical, mental and social activities
  • Fostering of the integration of older people, especially those handicapped
Main activities
  • Workshops in local institutions
  • Feast of the generations (with games connecting the generations)
  • Physical activities and fitness (running, gymnastics)
Evaluation  no
Main results
  • The project was carried out in 15 Styrian districts in the year 2000, app. 8.000 older people took part in the intergenerational programmes then. It was hard to motivate responsibles in local agencies to participate.
Contact name Mag. Günter Abraham (ASKÖ)
Contact email  steiermark@askoe.or.at
Social participation and inclusion
  • lifelong learning, education of older people
  • social support, networks
  • self-help groups
Lifestyle
  • physical activity
Inclusion criteria
More information on inclusion criteria
3. Multi-faceted, holistic The project promotes a healtyh lifestyle with a main focus on physical activity but takes into account the mental and social factors of health, e.g. in promoting generational networks or the integration of older people into communities.
5. Voice of older people
6. Model involves visible and invisible target groups
7. Diversity
8. Geographical and physical accessibility
9. Well-grounded theoretical approach
10. Gender sensitivity
12. Empowerment
14. Consumer satisfaction
16. Innovative strategy The applied strategy of the project is innovative, using theoretical input for older people, animiation programmes as well as the training of mulitplicators and other strategies to empower older people.


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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