Best Practice Reports

Expert Survey on Physical Activity Programmes and Physical Activity Promotion Strategies for Older People

The first stage of EUNAAPA work package No. 5 (Identify Existing Programmes for Physical Activity and Physical Activity Promotion for Older People) was to identify and describe, with the help of national experts, examples of physical activity (PA) programmes and PA promotion strategies for older people which were deemed to be ‘successful’. The second stage was to use systematic search methodology to compile an inventory of evidence-based, professional guidelines for the provision and/or promotion of safe and effective physical activity by older people.  The third stage was critically to compare the PA programmes and PA promotion strategies with the evidence-based best-practice guidelines and to formulate appropriate recommendations. 

Data were submitted to the leader of work package 5 (University of Edinburgh) for incorporation into this cross-national report.  The participating countries were Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and United Kingdom. All of the national reports can be found here.

You can find the Cross national report on physical activity programmes and promotion strategies here.

Dissemination and Implementation of Physical Activity Programmes and Promotion Strategies for Older People

The EUNAAPA's project work package no. 6 (Dissemination and Implementation of Physical Activity Programmes and Promotion Strategies for Older People) . This report first reviews some of the research conducted in the field of policy assessment and policy development for health promotion and then introduces the theoretical model and the methods employed. The results section is divided into a chapter on the phone survey and another on the national workshops. In both sessions, overall results are reported first, followed by a detailed analysis by nation. The report ends with a discussion of the results and some concluding remarks.

For all the national reports of this work package, please look here.