About Us
What do you want for your 80 year old self?
A successful ageing journey isn’t just about one part of our lives—it’s about looking after our body, mind, and relationships. By focusing on physical health, mental well-being, and social engagement we can navigate the challenges of aging with confidence, reducing fear and loneliness along the way. Ageing is Living project gives you the information and inspiration to have the power to create your best, most vibrant self as you age.
At Ageing is Living, we like to think about ageing like we would Superannuation – wait it’s not as dry – lets call is SuperAgeing. We make contributions to our finances as life happens to make things a bit easier and stable for us to enjoy our later life. It’s time to know how to make contributions to our health as life happens to make things easier and stable for us to enjoy later life. We have the information and the plans to help you do this.
Bridget provides training to clinicians working with older adults as well as providing engaging and empowering talks to groups interested in how to get the most out of their experienced years.
Changing how we think, feel, and act towards age and ageing is a prerequisite for successful action on healthy ageing. Bridget is here to help you with this.
Read, listen or talk to us and we’ll point you in the direction you’d like to age.
If you’re ageing, you’re living.
About Bridget
Bridget Scanlon is a psychologist with more than 15 years of experience working in a multidisciplinary clinic.
She works with the biopsychosocial model of health, which looks at the interconnection between biology, psychology and socio-environmental factors - that is, she works with the whole person. If you present with a physical concern or issue, Bridget and her team seek to understand what is going on in your body, your mind and your life to build the most suitable treatment plan and gain the best outcomes. To only focus on one part of you and your life will only help one part of your life, not all of it.
Despite putting in time, energy and money to improve their quality of life Bridget has seen many people get stuck because the focus of improvement has only been on one part of the picture.
Imagine a person in their 60s who has been engaged in work and family life for the past 40 years.
Their work demands reduce, their family demands change and they notice that it’s harder to be involved in activities compared with previously.
They start to anticipate that it’ll be hard to get to the family event or to complete the work project so they don’t offer to come or help or plan to reduce their time.
They have less time interacting with others and physically doing things, so they become deconditioned physically. This deconditioning makes it physically more draining to attend things.
They then experience feelings of disappointment or overwhelm that things are more difficult and want to protect themselves from this so they reduce how many activities or events they participate in.
Again, with this reduction in activities, their physical capacity, their confidence, their cognitive capacity and their connections with others reduce. Thus the vicious cycle continues.
We can break this cycle.
If you know what the cycle looks like and you know what you can do to alter it, then you’re already changing it.
Let’s do this.
Get in touch.
Interested in working together or keen to know more about the Ageing is Living project?
We’d love to hear from you!