Healthy Ageing Grants Fund
$60M is available to support activities that promote healthy and active ageing.
Objectives
Funding is being provided to further the objectives of the Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants Fund, including measures introduced by the Living Longer Living Better aged care reform package. Funding will support activities under the following Priorities aimed at helping to build a better, fairer, sustainable and more nationally consistent aged care system:
- Support activities that promote healthy and active ageing;
- Respond to existing and emerging challenges, including dementia care;
- Support activities that build the capacity of aged care services to deliver high quality care;
- Support activities that provide information and support to assist carers maintain their caring role;
- Support to services providing aged care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people living in remote areas; and
- Support older people with diverse needs, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, care leavers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex people.
Eligible Activities
Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Services
The Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Services (DBMAS) initiative provides clinical interventions to help aged care staff, health professionals and carers improve their care of people with dementia, where the behaviour of the person with dementia impacts on their care.
Applications are sought from eligible organisations to undertake activities delivered through the DBMAS initiative from July 2013, including expanded services as part of the aged care reform measure. It is expected that funding of approximately $7.6 million will be available for this expanded activity.
Promoting better practice and partnerships – Research translation
There is a significant amount of research and resources available on evidence based practice in aged care, however this needs to be made more accessible, and relevant to particular target groups in order to be successfully integrated and sustained into everyday care and service delivery. It is expected that funding of approximately $8.1 million will be made available for this activity.
Applications are being sought that promote better practice in The Quality Use of Medicines, and support the ability of organisations and health care professionals to safely and effectively use medicines in the care and support of consumers of aged care services. Funding will be provided for activities that identify, further develop, collate, and disseminate existing resources so they are practical, user-friendly, support staff education and training and business improvement systems.
Older Australians from diverse backgrounds
Applications are being sought from eligible organisations to undertake activities that focus on ensuring older people from diverse backgrounds can access aged care services that are specific to their needs, and/or focus on ensuring that sexual diversity does not act as a barrier to receiving high quality aged care. It is expected that funding of approximately $5.1 million will be made available for these activities.
Timing
There are no currently open.
Expert Assistance
We have significant experience in assisting clients obtain health and ageing grants. Typical areas where we can be of assistance include:
- Demonstrating the identified need;
- Highlighting the relevance to current government policies and priorities;
- Complete the Project Plan and Budget Projections;
- Identify Outcomes that are measurable;
- Detail the applicant organisation’s experience or expertise in undertaking the project/s;
- Calculating the value for money; and
- Demonstrating capacity to deliver quality outcomes
Call us on 03 9005 6789 or email us to discuss how we can assist further.
Additional Information
Previous Recipients
The outcomes of Round 1 of the Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants Fund process (Invitation to Apply DoHA/095/1112) are now available. On 30 April 2012, letters were sent to all applicants advising the outcomes of the assessment process. The high level of interest in the Fund resulted in 64 high-quality applications from a field of more than 600 being selected to proceed to contract negotiations.
ACT Chinese Australian Association
ACT Chinese Aged Care Information and Referral Service
Alzheimer’s Australia
Alzheimer’s Australia’s Service Delivery Pathways Project
Alzheimer’s Australia South Australia
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) Dementia Programs
Arts Health Institute
Music Moves – A music and movement program for people living in residential aged care facilities (RACFs)
Australian Association of Gerontology
Ageing Well Project
Australian Croatian Community Services
Positive Ageing – Right to Age Well
Australian Greek Welfare Society
Healthy Ageing for Australian Greeks Project
Australian Korean Welfare Association (AKWA)
Australian Korean Welfare Healthy Ageing Service
Australian Nursing Home Foundation
ANHF Community Linkage Program and Fit for Life Project
Australian Turkish Association
Turkish Community Partnership Project
Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council
Promoting Healthy and Active Ageing in the CALD Community of Ballarat
Byron Bay Community Association
The Creative Connections – Community Caring (CC-CC)
Caloundra Community Centre
Pets for Life Project
Cambodian Australian Welfare Council of NSW
Healing Through Compassion
Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Trading as Gipps TAFE)
Dementia awareness business breakfast series
Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Trading as Gipps TAFE)
Rhythm of Life – Drumming in the Community Setting
Chinese Community Social Services Centre
Community Partners Program for Chinese Seniors in Victoria
Co.As.It (Italian Assistance Association)
Italian Commlmity project Top of page
Co.As.It Italian Association of Assistance
Co.As.It Community Partners Program
Domiciliary Care, Department for Communities and Social Inclusion
Impacts of Elder Abuse in the Aboriginal Community Project
East Arnhem Shire Council
Mungkadinamanja Flexible Aged Care Staff Housing
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA)
Development of a National CALD Ageing Network (NCAN)
Filipino Community Council of Victoria (FCCVI)
Community Partnerships Programs
Geelong Ethnic Communities Council (Trading as: Diversitat)
Diversitat Bridging the Gap Project
Gosford RSL Leisure Living (GRSLLL)
The LGBTI Elders’ Wellbeing Project
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia in South Australia trading as the ‘Greek Welfare Centre SA’
Greek Specific, Culturally Appropriate Education/ Training Package
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia St Basil’s Aged Care Services
The Plateia Proj ect
Greek Orthodox Community of St George, Brisbane
Omonoia Project
HammondCare
Going to stay at home
HammondCare
Improving palliative care for people with advanced dementia living in residential aged care
Indonesian Welfare Association
Indonesian Aged Care Project
Italo-Australian Welfare & Cultural Centre
Italo-Australian Aged Care & Healthy Ageing Community Services
ItSoWel- Italian Social Welfare Organisation of Wollongong
ItSoWel Community Partners Program
Jewish Care Victoria
Translation of day to day documents in the Gandel Besen Hostel, Montifiore Homes JCV
Jewish Care Victoria
Translation of day to day documents in the Gary Smorgen House JCV
Jewish Care Victoria
Translation of day to day documents in the Munzer Nursing Home JCV
Jewish Care Victoria
Translation of day to day documents in the Smorgen Nursing Home JCV
Macarthur Diversity Services Initiative
Links to Supportive & Healthy Ageing
Macedonian Australian Welfare Association of Sydney
Macedonian Aged Care Improvements and Healthy Ageing
Macedonian Community Welfare Association
Suitable and Supported healthy ageing in Australia
Maltese Community Council of Victoria
Building a Permanent Bridge
Migrant Information Centre Eastern Melbourne (MIC)
Healthy Ageing for CALD Communities
Migrant Resource Centre (Sth Tas)
Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing: Community Partners Program
Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra
Illawarra MCCI CPP Program
Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra
PICAC ACT
Multicultural Communities Council Gold Coast
Gold Coast Supporting Older People from CALD Backgrounds project
National Ageing Research Institute
Dissemination of the Have A Try Program and the Healthy Ageing Quiz to Older
People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds
National Australia Day Council
Senior Australian of the Year Awards
NSW Spanish and Latin American Association for Social Assistance (NSWSLASA)
Support Services for older people of Spanish Speaking background
OzPol Community Care Association (OzPol)
Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing for EE communitie
Polish Association in Hobart
Wsparcie – Polish Dementia Project (PDP)
Queanbeyan Multilingual Centre (QMLC)
SE Multicultural Aged-Care Information and Activities Project
Queensland Government – Queensland Health
National Implementation of The Palliative Approach Toolkit (PA Toolkit) for
Residential Aged Care Facilities
Queensland University of Technology
Improving Wound Management for Residents in RACFs: National Dissemination and
Implementation of the Evidence Based Champions for Skin Integrity Program
Queensland University of Technology
The Transition Support – Person Centred Care Program (TS-PCC)
Serbian Community Association of Australia
Increasing Awareness and Promoting Healthy Ageing in the Serbian Community
Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre
Cultural Connection – Gardening Across the Seasons
Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre
Empowering New and Emerging Communities’ Project
South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre
Southern CALD Healthy Ageing Project
Springvale Indo-Chinese Mutual Assistance Association (SICMAA)
Vietnamese Happy Ageing Project
Sydney Multicultural Community Services
Sydney Multicultural Community Services (SMCS) Multicultural Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Project 2012/13 – 2013/14
Resthaven
Aged Care Discussions
UCA Assembly trading as Frontier Services
Frontier Services Indigenous Support Service
University of Western Australia
Sustainable Culture Change in Residential Aged Care
