Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5835
Improving respite care for people with dementia and their carers
This grant opportunity provides funding for aged care activities to increase support to carers and families caring for persons living with dementia through improved access to respite support services.
The activities will focus on innovative approaches to improving the quality and experiences of respite care and planning for people with dementia, carer education and wellbeing, and building the capability of aged care providers to deliver quality respite care to people with dementia.
This grant program forms part of the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. It is intended to increase support to informal and family carers of older Australians living with dementia.
For this grant opportunity, up to $61.63 million (GST exclusive) is available over four years from 2022-23 to 2025-26. There are three streams of activities and applicants may apply for funding under one or multiple streams. Each stream requires a separate application and will be assessed independently of other streams.
• Stream 1: Delivery of combined respite care for both the carer and person with dementia, applying the principles of HammondCare’s Staying at Home program (refer to the Staying at Home Program Principles).
• Stream 2: Delivery of innovative programs or models of respite care and respite care planning for people with dementia and their carers (i.e. includes opportunities to trial new approaches including one-off pilots proposed by aged care providers through their grant application).
• Stream 3: Dementia respite care training: deliver education and training to improve aged care provider capability to deliver quality respite care for people living with dementia, including successful transitions in and out of their respite services.
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Please refer to Eligibility requirements in Section 4 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
The eligibility requirements specific to the three streams are as follows:
• Stream 1 applicants must be:
- Approved Providers of residential care, home care or flexible care, approved under the Aged Care Act 1997; or
- Organisations providing respite care through the Commonwealth Home Support Programme.
• Stream 2 applicants must be:
- Approved Providers of residential care, home care or flexible care, approved under the Aged Care Act 1997; or
- Organisations providing respite care through the Commonwealth Home Support Programme; or
- a suitably qualified organisation/s with demonstrated experience in providing dementia-specific support services and with the aged care sector to undertake the activity.
• Stream 3 applicants must be a suitably qualified training provider with demonstrated experience and connections with the aged care sector to undertake the activity and can be:
- a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), or
- higher education (university) provider.
$61,630,000.00
From $0.00 to $61,630,000.00
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