Health Promotion Programs for the Elderly in Greece,the “Health Pro Elderly” Project

he ageing of the population and the increase in the incidence of chronic diseases, combined with limited resources for health care, led researchers and policy makers to search for health promotion alternatives. Defining Health Promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health in order to improve it and considering Healthy Ageing as an approach which recognizes that growing older is a part of living fostering a positive attitude through life to growing older, “Health pro Elderly” project was designed and realised in order to develop evidence-based guidelines and recommendations about action in European, National and Local level. T