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HAYDİ SAĞLIKLI BİR GELECEĞE YÜRÜYELİM (LET'S WALK TO HEALTY FUTURE!)
Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

According to World Health Organization’s definition, active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. Within this framework, several activities are being organized, innovative applications and researches are being realized, as well as policies are being developed across Europe in order to provide elderly persons’ participation in social, cultural and economic life. On the other hand, developing the intergenerational solidarity and cooperation is also of equal importance. Researches made in Europe shows that there exists intergenerational conflicts on several fields, and solidarity gradually decreases. Thus, a conclusion is being reached as to the necessity of taking efficient steps in order to strengthen the solidarity. In this respect, important tasks fall to the states and non-governmental organizations. We, as the Consortium Members, have developed and have carried out this Project in order to do our part in this respect. At the outset, and within the context of the Project, we contemplated sending abroad for short terms the certain personnel from Narlıdere County Mem, Narlıdere Home and İzmir Katip Çelebi University, whose areas of specialization are related to active living modules (such as physical activities and sport, healthy nutrition and obesity, rehabilitation, community-dwelling, overcoming the stress, efficient and active communication), adult education, intergenerational interaction and disadvantaged individuals, in order for them to see on-site the best practices and methods applied in Europe, improve their knowledge, share their own knowledge and experiences, and contribute in Europe Development Plan. We have 23 participants, appointed equally by each of the three member institutions of our Consortium. Physical education and language teachers and games masters, medical doctors, psychologists, and social service specialist and counselors are forming the participant profile of this team. Our hosting institutions are located in Latvia, Germany and Spain, and two of them are the members of EAEA (European Association for the Education of Adults). Upon their return from the education programs, participants first shared the knowledge and skills that they acquired in the respective institution they were situated, and thereafter, Consortium members exchanged information among themselves within the scope of their specialty areas. These were followed by seminars, activities, and educational meetings to be held by each member within their own institutions for their personnel, by which the masses to be reached shall be increased due to multiplier effect. Through these local activities, we, as the Consortium members, reached directly 5000 people. In addition, we also contemplated reaching indirectly hundreds of people by way of our web sites, leaflets, publicity posters. In order to provide the intergenerational interaction, we aimed at children and adolescents’ getting together with elderly people in order to provide spending their time together, elderly people’s handing down their past experiences and know-how to younger generations, and likewise, youths’ sharing with elderly people the new knowledge of today’s world . Within the scope of our Project, we also targeted including youths who were in need of “social inclusion” in the Project activities, thus providing their participation in the social life. We achieved first providing development of our own personnel in their specialty areas, and second, creating awareness in respect of the subject of the Project both in our city and the region by reaching large masses, thus forming social consciousness on active ageing and intergenerational interaction. We minimized the problems related to increased health and health expenditures caused by the increased population of elderly people both in our country and in the World, decreasing intergenerational communication, existence in community, and participation in social life.

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