healthPROelderly
23 November 2007
Longer life-expectancy is making health promotion over the whole life-span increasingly important.While there are many single initiatives to promote older people’s health in most European countries, many of them are not evaluated and there are few comprehensive measures and policies in this area.
CHSS is one of eleven academic institutions across the European Union working on the EC funded public health “healthPROelderly” project. The main focus of healthPROelderly is to identify criteria which make health promotion programmes for older people successful and to provide evidence for their sustainable effects. Jenny Billings, Andy Alaszewski and Patrick Brown are working to identify such models of good practice and evaluation in the UK.
The project findings will be summarised in guidelines and recommendations for policy makers, practitioners, older people themselves, and other relevant stakeholders across Europe.
For more information contact Patrick Brown on 01227 824532 or email p.r.brown@kent.ac.uk
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