HELP –
Healthy Lifestyles for Elderly People
Erasmus +
24 months: 2016-2018
Coordinator: AIJU – Association de Investigacion
de la Industria del Juguete, Conexas y Afines (Spain)
Partners:
Association E-Seniors
(France)
CIS –Scuola per la Gestione di Impresa (Italy)
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 education.
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 health care
• An on-line chat to share experiences, doubts, or
everything they need at the moment
• A tutoring and consulting system on-line