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The National Centre for Healthy Ageing is Australia’s
leading healthy ageing research centre.

  • Driving innovation

    We drive innovation and develop solutions to tackle the most pressing challenges affecting healthy ageing across the wider community, in hospitals and in residential aged care.

  • Co-designing solutions

    With a focus on at-risk communities, we are bringing people with lived experience together with world-class researchers to co-design solutions that work.

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Our impact

From vision to impact: How the NCHA is transforming health related to ageing

Research is critical in solving the complex puzzles and issues related to healthy ageing. Here at the NCHA we are integrating advanced technologies, simulation facilities and diverse research programs to address some of the biggest problems facing older people in Australia, and in fact, in the world.

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Reimagine the future of healthy ageing with NCHA

Our research addresses some of the greatest challenges facing our ageing population by collaborating with partners and the world's best researchers to optimise a person's health and improve their access to health and social care.

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Facts and figures

No other centre for healthy ageing has our unique combination of talent, research programs and technology enabled platforms – all designed with blue sky thinking to future proof efforts in healthy ageing research.

  • 25+ major research projects underway

  • >250 research members & affiliates

  • 120 national & international collaborators

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We invest in major research projects through our Living Labs research program,
working across four key themes

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Our projects are enabled by innovative platforms and extensive networks

Healthy Ageing Data Platform

National Aged Care Research Network (NACReN)

Community and Resources Hub

Research and Simulation Facilities

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Healthy ageing news

Monash University calls for public input on first dementia guidelines update in a decade

Monash University is calling on healthcare professionals and the broader community to help shape the future of dementia care, opening public consultation on the first major draft update to the national clinical guidelines in over a decade.
11 May, 2026 Healthy Ageing

Infection prevention and control in residential aged care homes is everyone’s responsibility

A new infection prevention strategy launched by the National Centre for Healthy Ageing’s A-PRECISE project team includes a suite of free multimedia and educational resources to tackle this persistent, sector-wide challenge.
21 April, 2026 Healthy Ageing

Study finds loss of Y chromosome in blood cells of ageing men may raise heart disease risk

A new study by Monash researchers has found that age-related loss of the Y chromosome from circulating blood cells may represent an under-recognised biological signal associated with myocardial infarction risk in older men. The study was published
11 March, 2026 Public Health and Preventive Medicine

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