Exercise Prescription for Healthy Active Ageing: LifeAge Guide

LifeAge guide is the result of a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It aims to promote a healthy lifestyle, which includes proper nutrition and physical exercise, in order to achieve a better quality of life in older age. There is no doubt that population ageing is a global phenomenon that affects the whole of Western society. It is determined by profound demographic changes happened in the last decades: the reduction of mortality due to improved health conditions and medical progress, on the one hand, and the contraction of births on the other.The ageing of the population represents a “triumph” but also a “challenge” for society. Actually, it increases the burden of chronic degenerative diseases linked to ageing, with the consequent increase in welfare expenses and the difficulties of sustainability of the entire social and health system.