Developing climate and health literacy while promoting active mobility and physical activity

Episodes of heat, sudden rises in temperature or increased exposure to allergens pose a particular threat to the health of older people. This particularly affects older people who are already a vulnerable group due to health impairments such as cardiovascular diseases (high blood pressure, heart failure, ischemic heart disease) or lung diseases (asthma, COPD). Pollen-triggered diseases such as allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and allergic bronchial asthma each affect around 5-11% of the population aged 65 and over. The consequences of asthma are also much more serious in older people and more often lead to death. The KliMate project therefore aims to design a system that uses weather and environmental data to provide individual recommendations for increasing active mobility, physical activity in general, social participation and general climate adaptation in older people. At the same time, individual and collective approaches are being developed to help promote climate-friendly physical activity. In addition to increasing active mobility, this also has the advantage of reducing loneliness and social isolation, the psychological and physical consequences of which can range from anxiety, depression, loss of sleep and cognitive decline to a deterioration in cardiovascular health.