About
Active me

Once a person has certain health indicator levels out of the norm (e. high blood pressure or blood sugar), the best approach is to change the person's objective but also subjective health condition through behavioral intervention to lower the levels to normal range without the need for pharmaceuticals (or alongside them).

These behavioral interventions can include a change in eating habits, physical activity, communication / mental health, or regular health monitoring that can prevent future health complications.

​

The importance of behavioral interventions in this area is well researched and proven, but they are scarcely used in practice due to time constraints and the capacity of the healthcare system. Furthermore, the contracts with health insurance companies in the Slovak Republic do not provide sufficient motivation for the use of behavioral interventions, which we believe can be changed.

​

The goal of the project is to develop and test new intervention protocols to bring individual health coaching and telehealthcare for seniors aged 60+ as well as group lessons in self-management of chronic health problems.
 

The individual success indicators of the developed behavioral intervention protocols are the habits that users adopt, for example, in food and nutrition or physical activity, and the test results of health indicator levels (eg. glucose, blood pressure, BMI, subjective sense of health).