TRAINUTRI – TRAINing and NUTRItion senior social platform
By establishing a well-being platform, TraiNutri aimed to help elderly people share ideas and habits in order to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Project Number: AAL-2009-2-2019
Funded by: AAL Duration: 05/2010 – 09/2012
Challenge
People tend to integrate within groups and imitate behaviours, so creating a healthy lifestyle social group will foster individual healthy lifestyles. For example, treating a heart attack may cause the patient’s children to change their dietary habits, improving their health and possibly improving their future medical outlook. Helping someone lose weight may influence that person’s friends to also lose weight. Additionally, an analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity showed surprising results. Researchers found that an individual’s chances of becoming obese increased by 57% if he/she has a friend who became obese. Adult siblings also influenced one another, increasing the chance of obesity by 40%. The risk of becoming obese increased by 37% if an individual’s spouse became obese. Therefore, a special care is needed in order to improve the quality of life of people, mainly for the elderly (50-65).
Innovation
By establishing a well-being platform, TraiNutri aimed to help elderly people share ideas and habits in order to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Action
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Project Partners
Collinear Technology Solutions (Netherlands)
