ThirdAgeTx: Optimising psychological health and wellbeing as we age
Prof Simon Gilbody DSc FMedSci
ThirdAgeTx Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Welcome to ThirdAgeTx, where we address the psychological challenges of ageing. Our older years are sometimes called the ‘third age’ of life. At ThirdAgeTx our mission is to ensure healthy ageing by optimising psychological health and wellbeing. We do this using leading-edge behavioural science to design effective and scalable solutions.
The World Health Organisation [WHO] has identified loneliness as one of the greatest threats to human health. So solving loneliness will be our first challenge.
Loneliness increases the risk of dementia, and unnecessary care home admission. Strokes and heart attacks are more common. The impacts of loneliness on physical health and life expectancy are comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
ThirdAgeTx rises to the WHO's challenge to end loneliness. Our mission is guided by people in their third age who are ‘experts by experience’. We are unapologetically solution-focussed and evidence-based, since older people deserve nothing less.
ThirdAgeTx is an evidence based solution to loneliness and social isolation. Our work is underpinned by research that is......
Funded by NIHR
Featured in Forbes
Published in The Lancet
ThirdAgeTx solutions: key metrics
All that we do at ThirdAgeTx is underpinned by science. Our research takes place at the the BTxLab at the University of York. We founded ThirdAgeTx to mobilise our world-leading research to improve the lives of older people. The care offered by ThirdAgeTx is founded on the results of the largest ever clinical trials to tackle loneliness and to prevent depression and anxiety in older people.
In the words of Professor Lucy Chappell, the NHS' Chief Scientific Advisor & CEO to the National Institute for Health Research, 'These results are an important step forward in understanding what works in tackling and preventing loneliness and depression'.
'During the COVID pandemic we witnessed an epidemic of loneliness, depression and anxiety. Care was not available for our parents and loved ones. As researchers we wanted to change that.
As the COVID pandemic has passed, the epidemic of loneliness is still with us. ThirdAgeTx was founded to ensure you and your loved ones are able to access effective psychological care'
Professor Dean McMillan PhD DClinPsy Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer of ThirdAgeTx
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