To live more healthy and valuable life of elderly or I am 65 and I enjoy living the healthy life

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To live more healthy and valuable life of
elderly or I am 65 and I enjoy living the
healthy life

• 04. 09. 2007, Bratislava

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Elderly 65

• European Union 62 mil.
• Slovakia 620 thous.

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Life expectancy at birth (men and women in SR)
1996-2005
70,11
Dlife expectancy at birth
77,9
years
Resource Information about demographic trend in
2005, SA SR
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Cardio-vascular mortality in population more
than 65 years old
5500
5000
CZECH
4500
mortlity / 100 000
4000
3500
SLOVAKIA
3000
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
years
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Cancer mortality in population more than 65
years old
1400
CZECH
1300
1200
mortality / 100 000
1100
SLOVAKIA
1000
900
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
years
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National projectTo live more healthy and
valuable life of elderly or I am 65 and I
enjoy living the healthy life
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AIM

• - to improve quality of life and knowledge and
  behavior related to health in elderly people
  (more than 65 years old)

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Partucular objectives

• 1. - to increase the interest of target group
  in their own health
• - to develop system of education in elderly
  people (to educate lectors from their own
  community)
• 2. - to keep up position achieved to inform,
  to publish, to educate, to supervise quality of
  information, to consult and advise the lectors
• 3. to provide feedback to monitor and
  evaluate the project, as well as to draw
  conclusions, to discuss, to improve all phases of
  the project
• 4. to turn society attention to elderly people
  problems, to prevent the senior isolation, to
  increase interest of politician, goverment,
  parliament in the life of seniors, to implement
  the idea of healthy lifestyle and to improve the
  health awareness and behaviour in elderly people

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• PROPOSER The Public Health Authority of the
  Slovak Republic
• COLLABORATING ORGANISATION Union of seniors of
  the Slovak Republic
• THE MEDIA PARTNERS newspaper, journals,
  magazines, radio, television, press agency

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PHA SR

Regional public health authorithy
Lector
Lector
Lector

volunteer US SR volunteer US SR
volunteer US SR

own community own
community own
community club of pensioners
club of pensioners
club of pensioners boarding house
boarding house
boarding house



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Proposed actions

• to arrange activities in the field of health
  prevention and health education in elderly people
• to support the social environment of the target
  group
• to develop and edit concepts, leaflets, brochures
• to implement educational activities for targert
  group pilot seminars in Bratislava
• to develop and edit methodical manuals/guidelines
• to spread educational activities throughout the
  country (teaching by way of seminars for the
  Regional public health authorities of the Slovak
  Republic)
• to implement educational activities for target
  group seminars, discussions on regional level
  in the Slovakia
• to control information quality in community of
  elderly people - Observation
• to monitor the health status and health awareness
  and behaviour of target group after 2 years of
  project realization.

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Expected results

• Increase elderly people with good health, keeping
  independence, self-respect, participation in
  social life

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To live more healthy and valuable life of
elderly or I am 65 and I enjoy living the
healthy life

• statement

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• 1.st period

Focused on social environment

culminate
Conference of US SR (Union of Senior of the SR)
1.10. 2004
Organization US SR and PHA SR
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st period

• Senior week 27.9.-1.10.2004
• press conference-start projekt
• mobile consulting centres in hypermarkets
• health education activities in ???
• consulting centre (PHA SR) for projekt
• attendance at conference US SR
• activities in the media about elderly problems

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• 2.nd period

Selection of participations and Prepare and print
educational materials
1.st and 2.nd edition of textbook for senior
education in healthy life style
Distribution of these textbooks to 36 RPH
A Authors of this textbook are PHART employeers
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Manual (textbook)
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• 3.rd period

oriented for educational activities for seniors
a) realisation of pilot educational seminars in
Bratislava (january - june 2005) 14 seminar
leavers (way of living, health problems of
seniors, Psychological aspects of aeging, Social
welfare, consoulting centres) b) methodical
training for employers RPHA (september 2005)
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• 4. th period

oriented for realisation of educational
activities for seniors
seminares at regional level (RPHA from oktober
2005)
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• 5.th and 6.th period

• observation quality control of provided
• informations
• monitoring of seniors health status and health
• knowledges and behaviour

2006-2007
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Absolute number of project leaver finished
certificate - 400 !
(status as of 31. 08. 2006)
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