The project consortium is composed by four partners :

1)      Dublin Trinity College (coordinator)

2)      Association E-Seniors

3)      Université Grenoble-Alpes

4)      Age & Opportunity (external partner)

This EIT Campus project aims to stimulate healthy, activeve ageing and mobility among older adults. It will develop and implement educational and informative activities, based on behavioural change principles, to enable older adults to obtain new knowledge and skills on how manage the physical activity aspect of their health. In so doing it should help combat the onset of chronic disease, decrease the decline to dependency and facilitate empowerment to not only living longer, but living well.

 

The focus of this project is the promotion of healthy and active ageing as well as active mobility among older adults. Drawing on expertise of E-Seniors and Age & Opportunity, older people living in France and Ireland will take part in events to celebrate (and educate on) healthy and active ageing. They will engage with each other, electronically, as a community of practice, contributing to and learning from these events. As such, they will build a community of healthy and active ageing.

 

The general objective of MOVAGE-ACT is to empower older people (with and without chronic illness) to adopt healthy lifestyles with activity and mobility. Through a series of events (storytelling/celebrating and learning about healthy ageing/building communities of practice/sharing what is learned), this project will popularize and promote knowledge about healthy lifestyles and active mobility among citizens (60+) in a number of European cities, facilitating increased physical activity in all and those who need it for post-event rehab. and to promote self-management of health. It will support empowerment of older adults to adopt healthier, more active lifestyles, presenting initiatives and ideas about mobility, informing them about individually-determined solutions, thus enhancing functionality. It will enable them to engage with health professionals, policy-makers and innovators in the field of active ageing and active mobility, through participation in events in France and Ireland.

 

In particular, the project will:

-         Identify, using focus groups, the motivators and barriers to physicalactivity andexplore possible age-appropriate solutions

-         'Feedforward' theseoutcomes to inform the projectactivities' development

-         Organize high-level public events to promote active ageing and active mobility in anumber of sites across France and Ireland, to includephysicalactivities, educationalinput and interactive workshops

-         Utilise behavioural change techniques in the project'seducationalmaterials, toincrease adoption of activity and long termadherence.

-         Developmaterialsthatcanbeembedded in health, age and activity-relatedwebsites,increasing the effectiveness of the materialthrough multiple use and availabilitybeyond the physical and time frames of the project

-         Evaluate the utilisation and impact of the materialsdeveloped

-         Increase the long termeffectiveness of the projectthroughdissemination of thematerials and evaluationsthrough open seminars, publications and conferencepresentations

-         Create a virtualcommunity of practice to connectolderadults and professionalsinterested in active ageing and active mobility, allowingthem to continue to exchangeexperiences, best practice and innovative solutions influence physicalactivitypromoting structures and policy.

 

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