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Coaching Older Adults Towards a Healthier Lifestyle: Psychological and Technological Methods

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Digital Health Technology for Better Aging

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This chapter discusses the theoretical behaviour change framework and its integration and implementation of behaviour change techniques that form the conceptual psychological basis for innovative but efficient coaching approach. We review the current state of e-coaching solutions for older adults that can be found in the literature and identify gaps. Finally, we review and discuss the technological implementation of behaviour change techniques applied in NESTORE to support healthy older adults to adopt a healthy lifestyle in all NESTORE well-being domains as reference case study.

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  1. University of Zurich, University Research Priority Program “Dynamics of Healthy Aging, Andreasstrasse 15, Box 2, 8050, Zurich, Switzerland

    Christina Röcke & Sabrina Guye

  2. University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Fribourg, Switzerland

    Leonardo Angelini, Mira El Kamali, Maurizio Caon, Omar Abou Khaled & Elena Mugellini

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Röcke, C. et al. (2021). Coaching Older Adults Towards a Healthier Lifestyle: Psychological and Technological Methods. In: Andreoni, G., Mambretti, C. (eds) Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_10

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