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Announcing the Arrival of the Health Age Predictor

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AUTHOR: The Avidon Health team

This release brings powerful new ways to engage your members, starting with the Health Age Predictor, a unique new tool that delivers personalized insights and dynamic, readiness-based recommendations. We’re also adding two new courses to our ever-expanding catalog: Reconnect, focused on rebuilding social connection for people who may feel isolated or lonely, and The Next Chapter, supporting life after cancer treatment. Plus, a new On-Demand Challenge called Unboxing Your Perspective, which encourages an expansion of self-image by using playful, low-pressure prompts to awaken curiosity and explore exercises in creativity.

Rounding out the update are notes regarding two retirements: the legacy SelfHelpWorks app (effective immediately) and the LivingFit course (reaching end-of-life at year’s end to make room for a modern replacement).


Introducing the Health Age Predictor

We’re excited to release the Health Age Predictor (aka HAP), an interactive, highly responsive tool designed to personalize and invigorate any-and-every individual wellness journeys across your organization. The HAP is a dynamic, interactive feature which gives each member an instant calculation of their “health age” based on a quick lifestyle assessment, their current health status, and their biological age.

The HAP isn’t a one-and-done tool; it’s a dynamic, ongoing measure that helps keep users motivated. As participants make healthy lifestyle changes or improve conditions (like hypertension), they can update their HAP responses to generate a new health age. This interactive cycle (of self-reporting, tailored content recommendations, and recalculated health insights) creates a continuous loop of feedback and encouragement. The HAP will function as an evolving source of motivation, helping users see real progress and stay engaged.

Here are some of the main things to know about the HAP:

Quick & Insightful Assessment
Members answer a brief set of questions about their daily habits and health. After the complete the initial survey, they receive their health age.

Actionable Next Steps: Motivation-Driven Recommendations
At the end of the experience, users see a prioritized list of courses or activities recommended specifically for them, factoring in both their most significant health risks and their motivation levels related to each condition and/or lifestyle behavior.

Ongoing Engagement
Once live, a member’s health age will be featured prominently on their dashboard and will evolve as they take action or update their responses. It becomes a motivating pulse-check, reflecting real progress when they make gains in their health and habits.

Why It Matters to the Client & the Participant

  • More Personalization: Participants receive recommendations that match their goals and mindset.

  • Stronger Engagement: When people feel seen, supported, and encouraged by a numeric reflection of their progress, they participate more and stick with it.

  • Lasting Relevance: The HAP isn’t just a one-time tool. It supports ongoing behavior change by staying relevant across a wide range of habits and life stages.

Sample: A Participant Updates Tobacco Habits and Receives an Updated Health Age


Two New Courses Added to Catalog

Reconnect: Emerging from Social Isolation

Loneliness doesn’t have to be the new normal. Our latest course, Reconnect: Emerging from Social Isolation, explores how disconnection affects both mental and physical health—and what we can do about it. Whether someone is recovering from a major life shift, feeling socially out of sync post-pandemic, or simply looking to deepen their relationships, this course offers compassionate guidance and practical next steps.

Topics & Themes: Participants will learn how isolation impacts the body and brain, recognize signs of disconnection in themselves and others, and explore small, realistic ways to rebuild or strengthen relationships—at their own pace, and in ways that feel right.

Who Should Take This Course? Ideal for anyone feeling disconnected or lonely—especially those navigating transitions like caregiving, retirement, illness recovery, or relocation. Also great for users wanting to reconnect after years of reduced social interaction.

Duration: 3 modules | Time TBD


The Next Chapter: Life After Cancer

Surviving cancer doesn’t mean everything returns to normal, it means stepping into something new. The Next Chapter: Life After Cancer is a compassionate course designed to support individuals navigating life after treatment. This course draws most heavily on two proven tools, journaling and thought reframing, to guide participants through reflection, emotional processing, and planning as they move on from this phase of life.

Whether for personal recovery or in support of a loved one, this course offers clarity, encouragement, and practical tools for the road ahead.

Topics & Themes: Participants will explore how cancer can reshape identity, emotions, and routines. They'll learn strategies like journaling, reframing thoughts, and identifying values to help make sense of their experience and plan for what comes next.

Who Should Take This Course? Survivors, caregivers, loved ones, people with a family history that concerns them, and anyone processing a cancer journey.

Duration: 3 modules | Approx. 13 minutes


New On-Demand Challenge

Unboxing Your Perspective: The Creativity Challenge

What happens when we challenge the stories we tell about ourselves? When we break routines, shift perspectives, and think a little less like grown-ups? Unboxing Your Perspective: The Creativity Challenge invites participants to do just that through five immersive phases designed to unlock creative thinking, flexible habits, and a more expansive sense of self.

Each phase includes:

  • Quick-read articles on creative thinking and self-image

  • Personalized flows to support reflection and mindset shifts

  • Tasks to build flexible, habit-shifting behavior

By the end of the Challenge, participants will have:

  • Disrupted unhelpful patterns and reframed limiting beliefs

  • Practiced creativity as a tool for behavior change

  • Strengthened their ability to adapt, empathize, and imagine new possibilities


End-of-Life Notice: SelfHelpWorks Mobile App

As of this release, the legacy SelfHelpWorks mobile app has officially reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. Clients wishing to continue offering a mobile app to their participants should switchover to the new "Avidon" mobile app available in the Apple and Google app stores.

Don't have the mobile app enabled for your account? Please contact your account exec today to enable for your account!


End-of-Life Notice: LivingFit Course

Our beginner-friendly exercise course, LivingFit, will reach end-of-life at the end of this year. Designed to help sedentary users begin moving again, LivingFit has served many well, but it’s time for a refresh.

In early 2026, we’ll launch a brand-new movement course that builds on LivingFit’s foundation while incorporating modern content design, our latest engagement tools, and more accessible, personalized guidance. The new course will deliver a richer, more motivating experience to help users move with confidence, no matter where they’re starting from.

We’ll share more about the new course as the release approaches. In the meantime, LivingFit will remain available through December 31, 2025.


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