ThirdAgeTx: adding psychological health to ageing and longevity

Prof Simon Gilbody DSc FMedSci

ThirdAgeTx Founder & Chief Medical Officer 

Our later years are sometimes called the ‘third age’ of life.  These can be our best years, but only if we prioritise healthy ageing.  All too often mental health and psychological wellbeing are left out of this conversation.  At ThirdAgeTx we are on a mission to change that.  Using leading-edge behavioural science we can optimise psychological health during the third age.  We've been doing this for 20 years and we have the evidence to show it works [and saves money].

The World Health Organisation [WHO] has identified loneliness as one of the greatest threats to healthy ageing.  So solving loneliness will be one of our first challenges.  Another priority is to optimise psychological health when faced with physical health problems.  This makes sense, since the mind is often left out when we treat the body.

We are unapologetically solution-focused and evidence-based, since older people deserve nothing less.

Take a look at our website.  Say hello if, like us, you are interested in adding psychological health to ageing and longevity.

 

ThirdAgeTx harnesses evidence based solutions to loneliness, social isolation and long term health problems.  Our mission 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 ensure healthy psychological ageing.  The care offered by ThirdAgeTx is founded on the results of the largest ever clinical trials to tackle loneliness and to opimtise psychological health as we age ['healthy psychological ageing'].  

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 twin epidemics of loneliness and  long term health problems are 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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