Social & Active Healthy Aging
Social & Active Healthy Aging
The BeWELL vision helps to improve
Wellbeing by Energizing, Living & Learning.
The goals:
(1) Adding five years to healthy life expectancy [HLE+5],
(2) unburdening the health system.
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MoveWELL
MoveWELL
A novel approach to tackle physical inactivity by 'energizing' people
DrinkWELL
DrinkWELL
A social approach to prevent dehydration & malnutrition in later life and hospitals
EncourAGE
EncourAGE
A comprehensive community health concept to tackle social isolation and promote physical activity
The concept of positive health ...
The concept of positive health ...
... learns that participation in local life [the community]
via meaningful activities contributes to the health of our [senior] citizens,
both preventive and therapeutically.
BeWELL stimulates physical activity, reduces social isolation
&
and improves resilience
Our mission is
for older adults to enjoy additional years of healthy living...
Our mission is
for older adults to enjoy additional years of healthy living...
...without the need for a radical lifestyle change; instead providing them tools
with tips and tricks to 'energize' themselves, be more energetic.
...without the need for a radical lifestyle change; instead providing them tools
with tips and tricks to 'energize' themselves, be more energetic.
Aiming to make this an enjoyable experience, even fun, guiding them to engage in social activities.
Aiming to make this an enjoyable experience, even fun, guiding them to engage in social activities.
We have to move away
from a mindset fixed on risks & disease management
We have to move away
from a mindset fixed on risks & disease management
We definitely need to delay frailty and break the 'vicious circle of declining health'. Academic science has already proved that we can achieve this. Promoting physical and social activity, and healthy drinking and eating habits,
are the prerequisites to stay healthy.
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It's our believe that with the help of modern technologies we're able to learn from the individual's daily life,
delivering interventions targeting their 'soft spots'.
Combining data [science] and technologies, we are able to establish long term lifestyle (behaviour) change.
Key takeaways
Key takeaways
Support behaviour change with close-to-zero manual end-user input and minimal impact to daily living.
BeWELL helps national governments, local councils, (already established) communities and collaborations, care providers and insurers to innovate, automate and 'uplift' their citizen/customer centric processes and IT systems to a broader (health) community centric solution.
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