AgedCareServiceImprovementandHealthyAgeingGrants.pdfVIP

Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants Feedback summary Overview Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing Grants support organisations and activities that promote healthy and active ageing. They strengthen the capacity of the aged care sector by providing funding for a wide range of time-specific innovative projects. Specifically, grant funding is for projects which support the implementation of current aged care policy (particularly aged care reform) including those which respond to existing and emerging challenges, assist carers in maintaining their caring role and support people from diverse backgrounds with diverse aged care needs. This funding round focused on the following priorities: ? support for activities that promote health and active ageing ? responding to existing and emerging challenges including dementia care ? support for activities that build the capacity of aged care services to deliver high quality care ? support for 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 ? support for older people with diverse needs. Organisations applying for this grant funding round needed to align with one or more of the priority areas. DSS has a strong commitment to work with organisations that are meeting these diverse priority needs of older people in Australian society. Selection results DSS received 838 applications for the Aged Care Service Improvement and Healthy Ageing funding round. The selected proposals demonstrated creative and diverse approaches to priority areas for this aged care sector funding round. Details about the strengths and areas for improvement of proposals are detail