Successful Alliance Building
for
Physical Activity Promotion
among Older People
In recent years, a large number of programmes geared at promoting physical activity for older people
has been developed.
However, there is a general imbalance between
the development of action
and programmes and their utilisation.
The EU-sponsored PASEO project intends to improve the implementation of programmes for the promotion of physical activity among sedentary older people
PASEO stands for "Building Policy Capacities
for Health Promotion through Physical Activity
among Sedentary Older People".
The project has been funded by DG SANCO since 2009.
PASEO intends to stimulate policies for the promotion of physical activity
among sedentary older people in 15 European nations.
PASEO has set its focus on strengthening policy capacities in two key areas:
- Building intersectoral capacities
by linking organisations across multiple policy sectors (i.e. health, social care, sport) to enhance their efforts
to promote physical activity among older people - Building intraorganisational capacities (i.e. personnel, resources,
co-operations within organisations)
to enhance their efforts to promote physical activity among older people
One of the main activities of the project so far
has been to set up regional or national intersectoral alliances in all participating nations.
These alliances will, under the lead of the PASEO project partners, engage in a number of meetings to develop and implement systematic actions
for the promotion of physical activity
among older people in 2010.
As of January 2010, associated and collaborative partners of PASEO have made a
tremendous effort in setting up these alliances.
In all nations, important and powerful
governmental and non-governmental organisations have committed themselves to
take action for the promotion of physical activity among older people in the year 2010.
The PASEO project team would like to express its gratitude to DG SANCO for the
opportunity to carry out this exciting work.
The following pages are intended to present
some of the remarkable alliances that have been forged in the different nations.
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