Project overview- The Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI) HAI is a population-based health examination and intervention where all individuals living in Umeå municipal area are invited to participate when they are exactly 70 years old. Information from population registers is used to contact eligible individuals, who received printed information about the research project. Telephone contact is made shortly thereafter, during which individuals accept or decline the invitation to participate. As we aim to investigate a sample representing the general population, no eligible participant is excluded. The 70-year-old participants visit the clinic at 2 occasions a week apart. At the first visit, traditional and potential novel risk factors for non-communicable disease are measured (please see details below), blood samples are sent for analyses, and participants are sent home with accelerometers to collect data on physical activity and sedentary behavior. At the second visit, all participants are informed about the results of tests performed. They also receive counseling with focus on physical activity using motivational interviewing which is a directive patient-cantered counseling style to help the participants to explore and resolve their ambivalence about behavior change. Based on the results, the participants will also be given medical advice, or referred to primary care for follow up. They are also contacted at 6 months, 12 months per telephone for follow up, and we are planning for an in-clinic follow up after 5 years. The project started 5 years ago with the aim to include 2500 men and 2500 women. October 12, 2017, 3700 individuals have been included with a participation rate of 71%.