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Promoting health in later life
 — report of the Borders Ageing Well Project
Author(s)Sheena Lowrie, Lorna Hall
Corporate AuthorHealth Promotion Department, Borders Community Health Services NHS Trust
PublisherAge Concern Scotland; Borders Community Health Services, Edinburgh, 1997
Pages15 pp
SourceAge Concern Scotland, 113 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3DT.
KeywordsHealth [elderly] ; Good Health ; Ageing process ; Preventative medicine ; Living in the community ; Rural areas ; Projects ; Pilot ; Scottish Borders.
AnnotationThe Borders Promoting Health in Later Life programme was a pilot health promotion project with older people in two rural areas of the Borders, and funded by Age Concern Scotland through its Ageing Well programme. The programme is based on the consensus that a physically active lifestyle should be integral to any health promotion for older people. The Project aimed to improve and maintain the health of older people living in the community in the Newtown St Boswells and Earlston areas, by means of a series of health related activity sessions, and to promote the concept of positive ageing. This report discusses project worker induction, publicity, and programme planning. It evaluates the mental, social, exercise and health benefits. The pilot proved the Project's viability, so that it could be replicated in other communities.
Accession NumberCPA-971119003 B
ClassmarkCC: CD: BG: LK2: K4: RL: 3E: 4UC: 9B

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