Deadline: 25 March 2020
The Donaghue Foundation is currently seeking applications for the Another Look Grant Program 2020 to provide funding for research that has the near term potential to improve quality for older adults living in long term care facilities.
This program provides funding for health-related research projects that can improve the quality of care and the quality of life for adults who are 65 year or older and who are long term residents living in nursing homes, assisted living, and other congregate care facilities.
This program requires researchers to rely on existing datasets to address the research question they seek to answer. Limited collection of new data is allowed in this program if it will enhance the utility of the project outcomes to improve quality in care facilities.
The Another Look grant program will now allow researchers to allocate some grant funds to the collection of new data if it will enhance the utility of the project outcomes for improving quality of care. Applicants will be asked to provide more extensive information on the role of the stakeholders with whom they will be collaborating on the project. The external review committee evaluating letters of intent and applications to this program will include experts from both the academic and practice and policy communities.
Researchers applying for this grant must include a stakeholder in the care delivery or policy arena with whom they will collaborate and who is willing to work with the researcher to develop products such as infographics, tool kits or training materials that are based on the research findings and could be used by those stakeholders to improve quality of care or quality of life for residents in long term care.
Topics
The Foundation welcomes all topics related to improving quality in long term care facilities but is particularly interested in supporting research focused on high priority issues that were identified through an environmental scan recently conducted by the Foundation. These high priority topics are:
- Increasing the availability and use of palliative, end of life, and hospice care;
- Assessing the impact of innovations in staffing roles and expertise on resident quality of life;
- Assessing the role of family members and informal caregivers on resident quality of life;
- Understanding and reducing the impact of ageism on resident health and wellbeing;
- Reducing isolation and loneliness and their negative impact on resident health and wellbeing;
- Addressing racial, ethnic, gender or income disparities in care quality or health outcomes;
- Enhancing understanding of the specialized care needs of resident populations with developmental disabilities or with serious mental illness.
Funding Information
In 2020, the Foundation will invest a total of approximately $750,000 in this grant program and expects to make four or five awards. Projects may be up to two years in length.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program is open to PhD (or equivalent) investigators at tax-exempt research institutions in the United States. In order to receive the award, the applicant must demonstrate how their research question is important to stakeholders in the policy or delivery arena and propose a rigorous research design.
- Stakeholder organizations cannot be the applicant organization. Grantees may use this award to augment funding for a project already funded through another grant.
For more information, visit https://donaghue.org/grant-opportunities/another-look/