Aged Care Services - Specialist Dementia Care Program

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Grant Name

Funder

Department of Health and Aged Care

Australian Government

Country or Region

Australia

Research Field

Aged Care

Deadline

30-Jun-2024

Grant Size

$5,500,000.00

Contact Info

Health Grants Team Grant.ATM@health.gov.au

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply you must be:

• an organisation invited to apply by the Department of Health and Aged Care (either via email or Your Aged Care Newsletter article depending on the approach type); and

• an Approved Aged Care Provider.

Grant Number

GO5304

Description

The Specialist Dementia Care Program (SDCP) is an Australian Government initiative that provides care for people exhibiting very severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, who are unable to be appropriately cared for by mainstream aged care services.

The program offers specialised, transitional residential support, focussing on reducing or stabilising symptoms over time, with the aim of enabling people to move to less intensive care settings.

Under the SDCP, the intention is that there will be 35 SDCP units established, with a unit in each of the 31 Primary Health Network (PHN) regions.

To date 10 SDCP units have been established nationally across 9 PHN regions as part of the Phase One Grant Opportunities.

The purpose of the Phase Two SDCP Grant opportunity is to identify aged care providers with capacity to establish the remaining SDCP units through the use of targeted competitive and non-competitive approaches commencing from December 2021.

Eligibility

Targeted Competitive grant opportunity

For the targeted - competitive grant opportunity, all eligible organisations located within the designated PHN region may apply. A Department of Health and Aged Care - Your Aged Care Newsletter article will be used to advise organisations of the Grant Opportunity through GrantConnect.

Closed non-competitive grant opportunity

For the closed non-competitive grant opportunity, only the organisation invited by the Department of Health and Aged Care will be eligible to apply for the Grant Opportunity through GrantConnect.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side of GrantConnect.

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link