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Evidence-Based
Disease Prevention Grants Program
Program Summary
Overview: AoA has launched a grants program
to demonstrate the efficacy of delivering evidence-based prevention
programs for the elderly though community-based aging service
provider organizations. The program will support local partnerships
involving aging service providers, area agencies on aging, local
health entities and research organizations. Grants will be for
up to $250,00 per year for up to three years. AoA will also fund
a complementary national technical assistance center to assist
in the development of these programs.
The program is designed to:
- Strengthen the role of our Aging Services Network
in providing high quality preventive health interventions targeted
at the elderly.
- Effectuate AoA’s role in translating
research into practice nationwide through its network of community
aging services provider organizations – drawing
on the Department of Health and Human Service’s research investments
at NIA, CDC, AHRQ, and other sources (e.g. RWJF, John A. Hartford Foundation).
AoA
will begin to “take to scale,” in the community, interventions
that show promise in research settings.
- Advance the President’s HealthierUS
goal and the HHS Secretary’s
prevention priority.
Eligible Applicants: Local public and/or non-profit agencies
and organizations that primarily provide home and community-based
social and/or nutritional services to older persons and are funded
at least in part through the Older Americans Act.
Key Components of Local Programs:
1. Evidence-Based Interventions:
Grantees will be required to use interventions that are documented
to be effective in reducing the risk of disability and/or disease.
The areas where there is evidence documenting the effectiveness
of risk-based interventions include:
- Physical activity
- Sound nutrition
- Smoking cessation
- Medication management
- Disease self-management (e.g. diabetes)
- Falls prevention
- Depression
2. Community Partnerships
Applicants will be required to involve key community partners
in the design, implementation and evaluation of their project,
including (at a minimum) a:
- Community Aging Service Provider Organizations to deliver
the intervention.
- Health agency or organization to assure the
quality of the health components of the program.
- Area Agency
on Aging to assure the program is linked to appropriate collateral
services, and to help promote the adoption and expansion of
successful programs in the community.
- Research organization to assist with the
translation of the research evidence and with the program
evaluation.
3. Evaluation
Local projects will be required to evaluate the impact of their
program on the participants (e.g., knowledge, behavior, self-reported
health status, and satisfaction). Projects will also be required
to conduct a formative evaluation to support continuous quality
improvement.
4. National Technical Assistance Program:
To complement the grants program, AoA will establish a national
technical assistance program to:
- Assist the grantees of this program in refining their interventions,
performance goals and indicators, and their program evaluations.
- Assist
AoA in the development and dissemination of best practice manuals,
training materials, subject area monographs, etc (all will be available
on AoA’s
web site); also assist AoA in planning and conducting meetings, conferences,
seminars, etc., as appropriate.
- Assist others in the Aging Services Network
(SUAs, AAAs and Aging Service Providers) who are interested in implementing
evidence-based interventions.
- Support the National Blueprint.
AoA Partnerships: AoA will involve others in the implementation
of the program, including: NIA, CDC, AHRQ, ASPE, CMS, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, and
The Horizon Foundation.
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