SISSSDE502 Project: Strategies to Increase Older Adults Participation

This project addresses the critical need to enhance the physical and mental well-being of older adults by increasing their participation in physical activities. The author, acting as a coordinator, proposes a range of strategies to tackle health issues like diabetes and high blood pressure, along with psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. The core strategies include establishing training centers with adjacent coffee shops to foster social interaction, surveying the preferences of older adults to create a tailored environment, educating them about health threats, and ensuring active healthcare professionals' presence. Furthermore, the project emphasizes the importance of providing emotional support through psychologists at the training centers to optimize the impact of physical activities on their overall well-being. The project references research to support the proposed strategies, highlighting the significance of addressing sedentary behavior and promoting healthy aging. The goal is to create a supportive and engaging environment for older adults, aligning with World Health Organization guidelines and improving their quality of life.

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Nowadays it has become very important to assist the older people of the community to
engage in the physical activities since they suffer from several diseases like diabetes, high blood
pressure and many others. As the coordinator of the centre, some strategies should be brought up
on how these issues could be resolved. Various other psychological problems like depression,
anxiety and others will grasp the effectiveness of the person and his life will be threatened by all
these problems. Therefore, it is very crucial that these older adults could be taken care properly
and maintains all the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO).
 All the older adults must be attracted to join the training centre so all of them can stay
together and share their talks. The adjacent coffee shops can be built near the training
centre for that purpose (McPhee et al. 2016).
 The likes of dislikes of the older adults can be surveyed. The outcomes will be analyzed
and specific environment can be created as per the likes of thes older people.
 The healthcare workers should teach these older adults about all the threats that they
might be facing in the recent times. These threats can only be decreased by the help of the
exercises (Harvey, Chastin and Skelton 2015).
 The healthcare professionals should also be active near these training centers. This is how
the situation can be made better and more elderly people will come to join these
programs (McPhee et al. 2016).
 Another strategy that should be important for the old people is to give them ample time to
realize their needs in life and provide emotional support (Harvey, Chastin and Skelton
2015). The psychologists should be appointed at the training centers who will
psychologically motivate them. Then their physical activities will have better impact on
their well being.

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References
Harvey, J.A., Chastin, S.F. and Skelton, D.A., 2015. How sedentary are older people? A
systematic review of the amount of sedentary behavior. Journal of aging and physical
activity, 23(3), pp.471-487.
McPhee, J.S., French, D.P., Jackson, D., Nazroo, J., Pendleton, N. and Degens, H., 2016.
Physical activity in older age: perspectives for healthy ageing and frailty. Biogerontology, 17(3),
pp.567-580.