The National Centre for Healthy Aging (NCHA) Independent Living Lab

• Investigators

  • • Dr Rachel Couper
    • Dr Duncan Maxwell
    • Professor Mel Dodd
    • Associate Professor Maryam Gusheh
    • Associate Professor Leah Heiss
    Monash Art, Design and Architecture
    • Associate Professor Libby Callaway
    School of Primary Allied Health Care (RAIL Lab)

• Partner organisations

  • Monash University (National Centre for Healthy Aging)
  • Monash Buildings and Property Division

• Funded by

  • Building 4.0 CRC

• Undertaken within

  • Future Building Initiative

Led by Monash University’s Future Building Initiative (FBI), in partnership with Fleetwood Australia, the National Centre for Healthy Aging (NCHA) Independent Living Lab is a piece of research infrastructure within the NCHA’s Simulated Environments stream of work.

This Living Lab aims to support research and related activities to deliver the NCHA vision and aims, by providing a simulated home environment for multidisciplinary research, testing and demonstration of integrated spatial, assistive technology, and care models for healthy living and ageing. Via the Living Lab, key research questions about how modular and prefabricated production can create innovations in living environments for ageing are addressed. This research is funded by Building 4.0 CRC.