The Cooperative Agreement under this Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative (ADPI) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), will result in a five-year cooperative agreement to a single organization to work on a national level to develop, test, and prepare for replication, new and innovative approaches to the delivery of respite services for family caregivers of people of all ages living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD).
Donor Name: Administration for Community Living
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/25/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $5,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The anticipated outcomes of this cooperative agreement include: Successful piloting of innovative models of community-based, dementia-specific respite services and supports. Development and implementation of a comprehensive training and technical assistance protocol to advance the national capacity to provide such services to people living with dementia and their caregivers, regardless of age. This award will increase access to meaningful and culturally relevant information, services, and supports for family caregivers, which supports Recommendation 3.1 made by the Recognize, Assist, Include, Support, and Engage (RAISE) Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council in its initial report to Congress.
The role of unpaid “caregiver” is one that an estimated 11 million Americans have assumed in support the more than 6 million individuals in the United States living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD). The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that those caregivers are providing more than 18 billion hours of care to people living with ADRD, valued at nearly $340 billion. [1] As the number of people living with ADRD continues to increase, so will the need to support their family caregivers, in person-centered, strengths-based ways, including though tailored approaches to the provision of respite care.
Priority Areas
The Administration on Aging (AoA), a division of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) is committed to expanding the availability of dementia-specific respite care in support of people living with dementia (of any age) and their caregivers. Using a model of program design rooted in the issuing of sub-awards to community-based organizations, the successful grantee will be expected to further the development and testing of innovative methods of delivering community-based, dementia-specific respite models, as well as the delivery of training and technical assistance to advance the national capacity to provide such services to people living with dementia (of any age) and their caregivers.
The program is designed to support innovative models of dementia-specific respite care through activities in two priority areas:
- Priority Area 1: Advancing the delivery of innovative, community-based, dementia-specific respite care models through sub-grants to home and community-based (HCBS) organizations with the capacity to develop new or translate existing respite models for delivery at the community level. The successful grantee (i.e., the prime grantee) will be expected to use no less than 80% of each total annual budget to support this activity.
- Applicants to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) are encouraged to consider a broad range of possible approaches, while ensuring that local dementia-specific respite models are:
- Delivered in a variety of settings, by established organizations with the sufficient capacity to provide respite services;
- Designed to ensure that those providing services are trained in the provision of dementia capable care and address the needs of people living with dementia (of all ages) and their caregivers;
- Models of care that include meaningful activities for the people living with dementia (of all ages) intended to benefit from the services;
- Support the ability of people living with dementia and their caregivers to remain in their homes and communities for as long as they desire;
- Targeting historically underserved populations: including those of greatest economic and social need, with particular attention to low-income individuals, including low-income minority individuals, individuals with limited English proficiency, and individuals residing in rural areas, and
- Not providing medical, administrative, or financial services.
- Applicants to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) are encouraged to consider a broad range of possible approaches, while ensuring that local dementia-specific respite models are:
- Priority Area 2: Training and Technical Assistance that supports increasing the capacity of community-based organizations (the sub-grantees funded under Priority Area 1 and the field more broadly)to implement dementia-specific respite programs and related services. All training and technical assistance activities undertaken in this initiative are expected to be coordinated with other similar activities pertaining to respite and related services. The successful grantee (i.e., the prime grantee) will be expected to use no more than 20% of each total annual budget to support this desired activity.
- Examples of possible focus areas for such efforts include, but are not limited to:
- The development, testing and dissemination of education and training programs in support of the delivery of community-based, dementia-specific respite in a broad range of community-based settings;
- Identification of promising models of innovative, cost-efficient, community-based, dementia-specific respite, including support in selection of sustainable models determined by community capacity;
- Enhanced workforce capacity, through the development and dissemination of training for respite providers in the delivery of community-based culturally competent, person centered, strengths-based, dementia-specific respite services to address unmet community needs;
- Development and delivery of training of respite staff to deliver person-centered, strengths-based supports with a focus on the strengths, goals, preferences, needs, and desired outcomes of the services for people living with dementia (of all ages) and their caregivers;
- Development and implementation innovative dementia-specific respite programming;
- Establishment of community partnerships and collaborations in support of dementia specific respite care; and
- Administration of local programs, including sustaining dementia-specific respite programming.
- Examples of possible focus areas for such efforts include, but are not limited to:
Funding Information
ACL plans to fund one (1) cooperative agreement at a federal funding level of up to $5,000,000 per year, for five years (60 months), pending the availability of federal funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Special district governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
