One man in five dies before the age of 65.
TOGETHER we can change that.

New service with men in the middle

06/04/16 . News

The Men's Health Forum has received a grant from the Bupa UK Foundation to improve men's mental health in mid-life.

The Forum will design a new service for men that aims to support and improve their mental health and wellbeing in this critical life-stage. 

Good mental health underpins health and wellbeing and is important for everyone. For many people, mid-life can be a time of increased challenges, responsibilities and pressures, in their working lives, family lives and relationships. 

Martin Tod, the Men's Health Forum's CEO, said:

Men may fail to recognise or act on warning signs, and may be unable or unwilling to seek help from mental health support services. This new service funded by Bupa UK Foundation aims to remove the barriers present with traditional services and provide more cost-effective earlier intervention, along with signposting to appropriate services, to improve the health and wellbeing of men in middle-age.

The new service designed with and for men in mid-life will provide them with free, confidential and anonymous online support. The service will be accesible via computer, tablet or mobile phone.

The service will supplement the Forum's ongoing work on male mental well-being including our:

The project will be led by Chris Stein who has promised to blog regularly on the development of the project. His first blog is about the why of the project.

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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