Nou tout an dlo-la: a swimming-based physical activity promotion program

Guadeloupe is a Caribbean archipelago. The coast proximity has been associated with improved health and well-being. It provides easy access to safe public beaches and to several private water-based activities. Only a small proportion of the elderly are able to enjoy these places for physical activities. Many others, in particular those with chronic diseases, are faced with limited, poorly adapted or expensive choices for these activities. Although physical activity is often recommended as a self-management strategy for improving or controlling many chronic disease, these community members are thus impeded to move from a pre-action stage to an action maintenance stage for increase of physical activity in such a context. Under the leadership of the regional swimming league, a multidisciplinary team of professionals and patient representatives was recruited to design a project to increase patients? opportunities for physical activity. [Copyright Elsevier B.V.]