Ikääntyvien terveysliikunnan lisääminen – ”Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Ageing – The PAHA Project”
PAHA –hanke on suunniteltu liikkumattomille kääntyville 55-65 vuotiaille. Ohjattujen harjoitusohjelmien kautta pyritään aktivoimaan ja innostamaan liikkumattomat yli 50-vuotiaat säännöllisen terveysliikunnan pariin. Ohjelma noudattelee EU: n luomia ”fyysinen aktiivisuus” -ohjeiston suuntaviivoja. Hankkeeseen valittiin mukaan Tanska, Suomi, Saksa, Kreikka, Unkari, Irlanti, Portugali ja Iso-Britannia. Kussakin maassa mukana olevat kuntokeskukset ohjaavat kolmea erilaista ikääntyville suunniteltua terveysliikuntaohjelmaa kuuden viikon ajan. Hyvinvointiprojektissa työskentelevät liikunnan ammattilaiset saavat aktiiviseen ikääntymiseen ja 50+ ikäisten henkilöiden motivointiin perehdyttävän erikoiskoulutuksen. Ohjelmaan osallistuminen oli senioreille maksutonta ja heille räätälöitiin myös ohjelma jatkoharjoittelua varten.
Hankkeen aikana suoritettiin säännöllisiä mittauksia, tehtiin arviointeja ja kerättiin arvokasta tutkimustietoa. Projektin arviointijärjestelmän avulla pystytään luomaan laaja-alaiset standardit, terveys- ja liikunta-alan käyttöön Euroopan laajuisesti. Hankkeen tavoitteena on luoda toimintamalleja, jotka voidaan helposti käyttöönottaa ja monistaa sopivalla tavalla ja kannustaa ikääntyviä henkilöitä ottamaan säännöllinen terveysliikunta osaksi jokapäiväistä toimintaa.
Suomessa hanke toteutetiin 2015-2016 kolmessa kuntokeskuksessa Liikunta- ja hyvinvointikeskus Aplico, Balanssiklubit ja Forever Töölö
PAHA -hankkeen aikana kootun tiedon ja mittaustulosten perusteella EuropeActive julkaisee “parhaiden käytäntöjen” -oppaan joulukuussa 2016.
Opas julkaistaan “European Summit on Digital Innovation and Active Ageing” -tapahtumassa ja tulee ladattavaksi EuropeActiven verkkosivuille englannin, ranskan ja saksankielellä.
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Europ Eactive PRESS RELEASE, Brussels, Belgium, 12 October 2016
Structured Fitness Exercise Intervention In Active Aeging Is A Big Success
| During 2015-16 EuropeActive has been leading on an EU-funded project called Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Ageing (PAHA) in 8 partner countries, and with the support of Technogym mywellness® accelerometers and mywellness® cloud platform. The aim of the PAHA project was to demonstrate if a 6-week intervention of structured exercise, exercise counselling and behavioural change support, is effective in increasing physical activity levels in previously self-perceived inactive individuals (55-65 year old). Measurements were taken at the start, the number of completions of the 6-week trial recorded, and then at subsequent 3 and 6 monthly intervals.
The 6-week programme included a high level of pre-booked fully-supervised training sessions with fitness staff who had previously completed additional training in active ageing and behavioural change. The content and intensity of the scheduled training programmes were gently increased over the 6-week period. From the 669 people who took part in the trials a significant majority of 89% completed the full six weeks. Within this number was a sub-group of 208 participants (121 females and 87 males), who were tracked using mywellness® keys and had their exercise data stored in the web based platform mywellness® Technogym. One of the main aims of the project was to get 20% of the participants still exercising to the benefit of their health 3 months after they completed their 6-week trial sessions. The results coming from the tracked activity group are especially remarkable with an adherence rate of 78%, compared to 62% of the rest of participants. Professor Alfonso Jimenez from Coventry University who led the research into the findings of the PAHA project commented that “In comparison to ageing self-starter exercisers, or those who do not have this type of early structured programming, the adherence to regular exercising falls to an average as low as 50%. Previous research has shown that ageing people completing a structured or semi-structured intervention (lasting from 4 weeks to 24 weeks) achieved completion rates of 65% upwards. The outcome of our intervention sub-group using accelerometers was especially positive at 92%. At the same time, the high adoption and maintenance rate after 3 months is a very promising result for large scale public health interventions which address physical inactivity within this age group”. After three months the participants on average have moved for 35 minutes at moderate intensity and almost 7 min at high intensity physical activity (a total of 42 minutes) per day. These values far exceed the World Health Organisation/EU recommendations for being considered moderately active (150 minutes/week which corresponds to about 21 minutes/day). Participants of the PAHA project sub-group who downloaded data into the mywellness® cloud platform were almost twice as active as the minimum recommendations. Programme Director for EuropeActive Cliff Collins said “Whilst PAHA was never structured as a “pure” research project, we have found some very significant data that corroborates the importance of mentoring, guiding and motivating people to exercise in a planned way, and when they feel the positive results themselves it gives them the best reason to continue. We are about finding evidence-based interventions that will genuinely make a difference to people becoming more active and the PAHA project has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of what really works.” Based on the PAHA experience EuropeActive is publishing a good practice guide that will be available in December as part of the European Summit on Digital Innovation and Active Ageing and it will be available as a download in English, French and German from the EuropeActive website. |
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