The City Council launches a program for the elderly to promote active aging through physical, cognitive, cultural and social activities.

Active Seniors: Healthy Living’ brings together and expands the services offered by the Consistory with a specific project that seeks to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of these people.

The City Council of Estepona has launched a new program aimed at older people in the city, which aims to promote a healthy active aging, improving the quality of life and physical and mental well-being of this group. This is the initiative ‘Active Seniors: Healthy Living’, which has been working in recent months with the idea of strengthening the care and services being offered from the Consistory to the group of seniors. To this end, some of these services have been reunified and have been expanded with a wider range of services.

The program of the municipal delegation of Social Welfare, through the Area of the Elderly, is aimed at people over 65 years and its main objective is to promote healthy active aging through physical, cognitive, social, cultural activities. The project seeks to prevent social isolation, promote personal autonomy and improve quality of life.

Thus, a complete program of activities and services has been designed to increase social cohesion and integration of this group, prevent diseases associated with sedentary lifestyles and isolation, promote physical activity adapted to the participants, socialization and healthy habits, as well as stimulation of memory, attention and other cognitive functions, implementing games for the duration of the main activity.

The program includes weekly physical exercise sessions to promote mobility and physical and mental health, talks on healthy eating and disease prevention to promote the adoption of the Mediterranean diet and proper nutritional habits, and organized outings to natural environments and adapted hiking trails, both natural areas and emblematic places in the municipality of Estepona (coastal path, promenade, etc.). Thus, it has also opted for hiking activities adapted to the profile of the participant, including adapted routes through natural environments, prioritizing safety and enjoyment of the environment (Sierra Bermeja, Los Pedregales Natural Park, environments Padrón River, La Cala River, as well as walks along the different beaches of the municipality).

We have also organized walks with cultural visits to monuments, museums and places of interest within the municipality, giving direct knowledge of the history of Estepona through information brochures or tourist guide.

It also offers a dynamic group program to strengthen emotional well-being and self-esteem, creating a motivating and participatory environment.

With this initiative, the City Council reaffirms its commitment to active aging policies, promoting meeting spaces that reinforce the integration and vitality of the elderly.

Participation in these activities requires prior registration. For more information, please contact the Geriatric Office, at 168 Terraza St. Also, call 952792602, or send an e-mail to: geriátrico@estepona.es.