Older Adult Health Hub
WA Health is introducing three Older Adult Health Hubs across Perth to make it easier for older people and their families to access health and wellbeing services in the community.
The hubs will provide coordinated, integrated care developed with clinicians and the community.
The Older Adult Health Hub based in the North Metropolitan Health Service catchment opened in Stirling in June.
Our vision
Older adults living well at home and in the community, supported by coordinated and integrated care.
How we can support you and your patients
- Short-term stabilisation of the rising risk patient and care coordination
- Rapid access to advice and care navigation
- Shared care planning
- Support for complex patients to reduce both carer strain and hospital presentations.
Our services
The hubs will provide via flexible delivery options:
- access to specialist and allied health professionals
- memory and cognition assessment and support
- assistance to management conditions affecting ability to manage safely at home – for example, geriatric syndromes including falls, cognition, continence and other risk factors contributing to poor health outcomes
- advance care planning support and advice
- help navigating aged care and community services
- coordinated, multidisciplinary care tailored to each person’s needs.
Who can benefit
Consumers living in the North Metropolitan Health Service catchment.
- aged over 65 years (or 50 years for Aboriginal people)
- with complex/chronic conditions or geriatric syndromes who would benefit with short term multidisciplinary care and/ or care co-ordination to stabilise health and avoid hospital presentation.
Eligibility considerations
- Functional decline/increased care needs
- Frequent health service use/escalation risk
- Frailty or multimorbidity
- Cognitive concerns
- Social factors affecting health and safety.
Alternative services may be more appropriate for consumers:
- in need of acute, urgent or emergency medical/mental health care
- under 65 years of age (or under 50 years for Aboriginal people) without geriatric conditions
- who live permanently in a residential aged care facility.
Alternative service providers for such patients could include:
- a hospital ED, urgent care clinic, or WA Virtual ED
- Mental Health Emergency Response Line (MHERL) | 1300 555 788
- Hospital in the Home/Home Hospital
- outpatient services via Central Referral System
- Residential Care Line.
How to refer
- Call 1300 229 080 to speak to a care navigator
Our location and hours
Older Adult Health Hub
42 Osborne Place, Stirling
Hours: 8:30am to 4pm on Friday
Have your say
We invite GPs to actively contribute to shaping the model and share feedback to ensure the hubs meet community needs and strengthen primary care.
Email us
- Email the NMHS Older Adult Health Hub
- Email the SMHS Older Adult Health Hub
- Email the EMHS Older Adult Health Hub
More information
Call 1300 229 080 for advice.