MRFF – 2022 Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant Opportunity

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) –2022 Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant Opportunity will support research that:

• Stream 1: develop interventions that deliver holistic and multidisciplinary care after diagnosis to improve quality of life for people living with dementia and their carers.

• Stream 2: conduct implementation research focused on addressing inequalities in uptake of prevention activities to support healthy ageing and quality of life for:
  • Topic A - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Topic B - rural, regional and remote populations
  • Topic C - culturally and linguistically diverse populations
     
• Stream 3: enhance utility of neuropsychological tests for dementia.

The anticipated outcome of the research is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians:

• Stream 1: living with dementia and their carers by developing and supporting adoption of new patient centred care approaches focused on transitions between care types and settings

• Stream 2: by implementing interventions that extend healthy, active years of life amongst vulnerable populations

• Stream 3: by enabling earlier and more effective diagnosis of dementia.

This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health.

Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) is available from the Department of Health’s MRFF website.