Who We Are

The Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing is a leading not for profit medical research and educational centre that focuses on extending healthy life and preventing disease in older Australians. Our centre is one of Australian most productive health and ageing research centres.

We are supported by the Western Australian Department of Health and are partnered with the University of Western Australian and the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research.

At the Western Australian Centre for Health & Ageing (WACHA) we are committed to researching issues associated with ageing in order to extend healthy life. As the Australian population ages, this area of research is becoming increasingly vital.

At WACHA over 50 clinicians, health professionals and other researchers from Hospitals, Universities and Research Institution both National and International are united by their desire to extend healthy life and are helping advance effective disease prevention such as dementia, mild cognitive impairment, falls, depression and frailty.

WACHA's research themes are:

• Healthy ageing -preventing disease in older people
• Clinical research - how we can treat people better and organize their care
• Health services research - how we can more efficiently run health services that look after older people in Australia

Basic facts about the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing