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Healthy Lifestyles for Elderly People
Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The general objective of the HELP project is to empower older people (65+) in Europe to adopt healthy lifestyles which include a healthy diet, physical activity, and social participation. Together with supporting older people on an individual level, HELP aims to develop the quality and cost-effective-ness of services for older people by promoting cooperation between service providers and recommendations on communal elderly services. Exists the necesity of promotion and raising the quality of life of the elderly people by guiding, counselling and training services through ensuring their active participation in the educationHELP project is based on European response to the progressive ageing of the population presents a key challenge for future development policies and it´s related to improve of the Quality of Life of Elderly people. The aging process generates important changes in the life style of the population and has significant repercussions in the volume and distribution of the social burden of the disease and in the quality of life. WHO (1994) estimate that one out of every nine persons is aged 60 years or older and it´s estimated that by 2050 one in five persons will be in this age group.The most important target group of the HELP project is older people who have unhealthy lifestyles. The main health risks of these people are unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and lack of social participation. This target group is reached with the help of collaborating partners and other associations of older people and municipal and regional actors working with this age-group.The second target group is current and future social and health care professionals, who are interested in getting knowledge and skills to prevent older people’s health risks and to support their empowerment and self-management. Professionals are reached from collaborating partner organizations and other associations working with older people and from partner educational institutes.The third target group is voluntary peer group mentors, who come from collaborating partner organizations or other associations of older people. They are retired older people who recognize potential risks related to unhealthy lifestyles and who have the desire and abilities to support other elderly people.The fourth target group is regional public, private and non-profit service producers, decision-makers and associations of older people. Project partners in each country contact this target group for developing collaboration.To achieve this challenge, the project will set up an e-learning platform to allow the elderly people improving their knowledge about quality of life, sharing experiences, exercises, personal solutions, etc. This platform will integrate different complementary elements:• An on-line open network for elderly people where they can to learn to control the risks of their health and to maintain their healthy lifestyles • A system to gather all existing resources on the Internet, differentiated by type of healthy care.• An on-line chat to share experiences, doubts, or everything they need at the moment.• A tutoring and consulting system on-line.The consortium of the project consists of 3 countries: Sapin, France ans Italy. Our target group is the elderly people without health lifestyles. Each countie will work with at least 30 elderly people (total 90) during the project lifetime and 30 participants will be the people with fewer opportunities.Projecto Outputs:O1: e-Guide Healthy lifestyles for Elderly PeopleO2: HELP Platform ApplicationProject Multiplier Events3 Seminars: 3 once per countryE1 HELP Event in SpainE2 HELP Event in FranceE3 HELP Event in Italy

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