EFDN interviews former active citizens for ActivU project
The Activate Healthy Lifestyle through Counselling for You (ActivU) was envisioned as a project to increase awareness and behavioural change in former active citizens with and without disabilities. Through enrichment of counselling and prescription procedures to effective use of physical activity and other health-related behaviours, it is envisaged that participants could achieve a healthy, active lifestyle.
Partners from 8 European countries are involved in the project delivery. It has reached more than 3,500 individuals among them former active citizens; sport practitioners; sport, labour and social associations; sports clubs and senior universities.
A review of existing literature regarding physical activity levels among former active older citizens defined the participants for the project team. 96 people were interviewed, 12 by EFDN, on such varied subjects as their physical activity levels before retirement, what jobs they had and any injuries they may have sustained over the course of their lives.
The information gathered formed the basis of adapted project provisions to the needs of participants.
Download the project factsheet for July 2020 here.
Project objectives
Some of the objectives of ActivU include:
- Develop communities of practice for awareness and knowledge about active lifestyle among former active citizens, practitioners, academics, and sport/labour stakeholders.
- Empower knowledge sharing and best practices with an emphasis on former active citizens’ behavioural change for healthy active lifestyle using e-learning material and traineeship monitored by specialised trainers.
- Inform the targeted groups about the specific condition of the healthy active lifestyle among former active citizens.
- Design and develop self-report measurement and e-learning content packaged in healthy active lifestyle to support former active citizens assessing their healthy active lifestyle.
- Increase sport stakeholders and policy makers’ awareness about the benefits of using online healthy active lifestyle resources for behaviour change of former active citizens.
