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A partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health.

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Data Platform

The Data Platform aims to harness the power of big data to ensure better health outcomes related to ageing.

Living Labs

Our Living Lab projects test new approaches and solutions to real world problems in healthcare delivery.

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Translational facilities

We're establishing state-of-the-art simulation facilities to undertake research and test new approaches to healthcare.

Our people

We bring together leading researchers, clinicians, industry and community.
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Members of the National Centre of Healthy Ageing have exclusive access to an extensive range of benefits.
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Healthy ageing news

The “Real” 7-Up – the 30-year study linking childhood obesity and fitness to midlife cognition

The world’s first study of the impact of childhood fitness and obesity on cognition in middle age, followed over 1200 people who were children in 1985 for over 30 years, has found that better performance on physical tests in childhood is

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Understanding how egg quality affects embryo development and fertility

Poor egg ‘quality’ is one of the main factors causing infertility, particularly in cases of women over the age of 35, or with metabolic disease such as diabetes or obesity.

Midlife twin study reveals simple eye test could predict dementia

A world first study mapping the thickness of the layers of the retina in 18 pairs of twins at midlife has found that it could be a marker of future dementia risk.