Course Description
Sir Muir Gray, former Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS, has developed this course to demonstrate how anyone over the age of 60 should be making active changes to their lifestyle in order to live longer, better. The course is based on a lifetime of experience and scientific research at the highest level, and will encourage you to re-examine the way you look at the process of ageing, and you will finish the course with a newfound positive outlook on this process.
Scientific research suggests that slowing the ageing process (senescence) is now a realistic goal, and we should do everything we can to meet this. Muir explores actions you can take to optimise your health by delving into the science behind the brain. He demonstrates how you can reduce your risk of dementia and disease, and improve your overall wellbeing.
Muir’s aim is to inspire you to change your life, helping you to divulge a plan so that you can optimise your brain health and cognitive function, enabling you to live your best life. You will learn about the importance of physical exercise, and how your fitness levels will directly impact the ageing process.
This course has been developed for anyone who is looking to live a better life, and for anyone who is caring for an elderly person. Knowledge is the enemy of disease, and after this course you will have all the tools to ensure that you have the best quality of life possible. The collaborative classroom environment will give you the opportunity to share your experiences with others who may be struggling, and together you can change the way that people look at getting older – together we will live longer, and better. Muir strongly believes that humans are tribal, and this form of online group learning will play an increasingly important part in life long learning.
Course outline
Understanding ageing
Fitness
Preventing and coping with disease
Understanding and changing how people think about older people
Understanding the brain and improving cognitive and emotional wellbeing
Strengthening the sense of purpose and preparing a plan
Choose how you want to learn
The Expert option
RecommendedDevelop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition from Sir Muir Gray
- Start course whenever you like
- 6 weeks tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- 6 assignments marked by Sir Muir Gray
- Certificate of completion from Sir Muir Gray
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 6 lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$299The Peer option
Discover the benefits of group learning in an online interactive classroom of no more than 20 people. Get the most from shared knowledge and community study
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 6 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 6 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$99
Learn better together
Online classroom
Start anytime and join a class of no more than 20 students
Test yourself
Practice what you learn with assignments after each lesson
Personal tuition
Exclusive assignment feedback from Expert Tutors
Share
Share ideas with classmates from around the world
Meet Sir Muir Gray
Sir Muir has worked for the National Health Service in England since 1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including serving as the Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority, and first establishing and then being the Director of the UK National Screening Committee. He founded the National Library for Health, and was the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process, and Safety for the NHS (England) National Programme for IT, serving as the Director of the National Knowledge Service. He was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England), also serving as the co-Director of the Department of Health’s Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Right Care Programme. Together with Sir Iain Chalmers, Muir was instrumental in establishing the Cochrane Collaboration.
Sir Muir is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems and has advised governments of several countries outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany.
While Muir’s experience is unrivalled, it is his passion for wellbeing which makes his course so exciting. He is dedicated to helping people to live longer, better and believes that all we need to do is change our mindset towards ageing – “Knowledge is the enemy of disease”.