Administration on Aging offering Dementia support grants

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Administration on Aging is offering a community grant aimed at creating and sustaining dementia-capable service systems for people with dementia and their family caregivers.

Details are as follow:

Eligible applicants For the purpose of this grant, community is defined as a group of people who live in the same area (town, neighborhood) and/or groups that share common interests (Ex: faith communities, provider agencies, organizations, businesses), who want to work together to improve their community’s ability to provide services to individuals with dementia and their families.

Purpose: To improve quality of care and increase access to comprehensive, disease appropriate services for individuals with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia and family caregivers in pilot communities across the state.

Funding available: Sixteen mini-grants of $10,000 per grantee, awarded in two rounds of grants. Round One: The WV Bureau of Senior Services intends to fund up to eight community mini-grants in June 2016. Each grantee will receive $5,000 the first year of the grant period and another $5,000 for year two of the grant. A local in-kind match is required. Round Two: The Bureau of Senior Services intends to award at least eight additional two-year mini-grants in November 2016. Announcement and application will be available in September.

Project timeline: The expected award date for Round One is June 29, 2016. This is a two-year project.

Scope of activities and outcomes: Grantees must address the following objectives: Improve knowledge and skills of family caregivers, provider agencies, and community gatekeepers.

Develop dementia-capable pilot communities that will effectively serve and support individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia and their families.