Health Promotion for Older People in Europe: Health promoters and their activities. Knowledge for training

This handbook on health promotion addressed to older people, which is written for readers in European countries, should function as a training programme guideline for health promoters. The authors are aware that it is an excessively ambitious task in light of the relatively poor scientific state of affairs in the field of health promotion. This ambition may be justified to some extent by the experience of the writing team, who acquired a considerable capital of knowledge as a result of ‘Pro health 65+’ – the European project on health promotion addressed to elderly people and prevention of chronic diseases, which was carried out as a part of the second Health Programme of the European Union.

Contents Introduction to the book 7 Chapter 1 Ageing. European strategies of active and healthy ageing 13 Chapter 2 Health promotion generally and addressed to older people 23 Chapter 3 Older people and their health status 41 Chapter 4 Health promoters 57 Chapter 5 Educating health promoters 81 Chapter 6 Institutions and funding of health promotion for older people 109 Chapter 7 Good practices in health promotion for older people 147 Chapter 8 Sources of knowledge and information for health promoters 179 Chapter 9 Glossary of terms related to health promotion for older people 203 Infographics 222 Authors (in order of appearance in the book) 223