The Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre received funding through the NHMRC Partnerships for Better Health initiative to deliver excellence in research and knowledge exchange for the purpose of improving health and health care in regard to cognitive and related functional decline in older people.

The CDPC received support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Funding Partners including HammondCare, Brightwater Care Group, Helping Hand Aged Care and Dementia Australia.

The CDPC brings together clinicians, researchers, aged care practitioners, policy makers and consumers who have a wide range of expertise in working with older people with cognitive and related functional decline.