Startup Launches to Provide Geriatric Behavioral Health Support
MedCity News December 20, 2024
Vitalic provides mental health support to older adults. It connects them to a care team that includes geriatric boarded psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed therapists and mental health support coaches.
About 25% of adults over the age of 65 battle mental health challenges, including depression and anxiety, and 63% do not receive adequate care.
A new startup aims to move the needle on this stat. Vitalic, a geriatric behavioral health platform, has launched with $4 million in seed funding, it shared with MedCity News exclusively. The startup was born out of innovation company Redesign Health and payer/provider VNS Health, both of which contributed to the seed funding.
Vitalic, based in Boston, works with payers and identifies high-cost, polychronic members with...