database: models of health promotion for older people

 

Details for: Active Ageing! Investment in the health of older people

 

Country  Austria
Project-number  AT-16
Name of model  Active Ageing! Investment in the health of older people
Name in national language  Aktiv ins Alter! Investition in die Gesundheit älterer Menschen
Link to model  http://www.soz.univie.ac.at/chr-det ails/
Organisation
  • Institute of Sociology of the University of Vienna
Link to organisation  http://www.soz.univie.ac.at/
Type of organisation  public
 non-profit
Project manager  Ass.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinprecht (Project Manager), Dr. Karin Kienzl-Plochberger (Projectcoordinator)
Start  2002-12-00
End  2005-06-00
Relevance of the modelEvidence-based, established model on health promotion for older people
Target groups
  • Socio-economically disadvantaged older people
  • Older people from minority ethnic groups
  • Educationally disadvantaged older people
  • Older men
  • Older women
Age of target groups
  • 56-60
  • 61-65
  • 66-70
  • 71-75
  • 76-80
Setting
  • City
Funded by
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Fonds Soziales Wien
Partner institutions
  • City of Vienna
  • Fonds Soziales Wien (FSW)
  • Verein Wiener Sozialdienste
  • Parallel projects in the Germany, 1. „Gesund älter werden“ in Hannover and 2. „aktiv55plus“ in Radevormwald (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
City
  • Vienna
Region
  • Vienna
Short summary The project is dedicated to research on the quality of life of older people in the course of a WHO demonstration project in Vienna. It is concerned with health promotion and the activation of isolated population groups among older people. Older migrants are also included in the project.
Main objectives
  • To offer health promotion to socially isolated groups among the elderly population through their residential area by different means (e.g. visiting and activating in their homes).
Main activities
  • Activation through home visits, interviews about QOL and active living.
  • Holding up contact over one year and accompanying the activation process.
  • “Health Markers” were developed for older migrants with information on health services and they were also translated into Turkish and Serbo-Croatian (i.e. brochures).
  • Regulars' table in Meidling was established.
Evaluation  yes
Description of evaluation The project was evaluated by a group of researchers from the University Department of Sociology in Vienna. There was a quantitative survey at the beginning of the project (baseline, about 350 responses) and a second survey at the end of the project. The evaluation result was (i) a raised information awareness which is the basis for a more active life, (ii) more contacts to other people and (iii) a slightly improved life quality.
Main results
  • The project response was very positive and older people reacted very friendly to the project. It was very helpful for them. Especially for older people with a migration background (about 40% of total population in the three investigated areas) the project was helpful for an activation. But there are differences between the different migrant populations there (Turkish, Croatians, Serbs etc.). The development of a multi-lingual brochure was also very effective for an orientation and activation of their daily life. Public Information days also helped to reach the aim to activate people in a healthy way.
Contact name Ass.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinprecht
Contact email  christoph.reinprecht@univie.ac.at
Contact telephone  +43 1 4277-48135
Publications  pp.
Promoting mental health
  • emotional support
Empowerment  yes
Social participation and inclusion
  • social support, networks
Inclusion criteria
More information on inclusion criteria
2. Evaluation A big evaluation effort has taken place by the Sociology Department at the Vienna University. The evaluation strategy carried out offered the possibility to compare two survey time points, one in the beginning of the project (N~350) and one in the end of the project. The evaluation report with more than 200 pages reports the effects of the project very detailed.
3. Multi-faceted, holistic
4. Sustainability
5. Voice of older people
6. Model involves visible and invisible target groups The project especially deals with isolated target groups in the elderly population, who are not as socially integrated as other older people might be. Another important target group of the project are older migrants (~42% of the population in the three project areas involved).
7. Diversity
8. Geographical and physical accessibility The project acitivities are easily reachable since they take place in the local setting in which people live and because older isolated people are visited at home and questionned about their quality of life.
9. Well-grounded theoretical approach
10. Gender sensitivity
12. Empowerment
14. Consumer satisfaction
15. Public recognition award
16. Innovative strategy The special health promotion strategy here is called "outreach activation" ("aufsuchende Aktivierung"), where older people are visited at home, contact is established with them, so then as a final step they are less shy to take part in health promoting activies.


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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