Through this funding opportunity, the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL) plans to award a cooperative agreement to a single entity to serve as ACL’s Innovation Lab (the Lab) to conduct research, demonstrations, and evaluations pertaining to falls prevention amongst older adults and older adults with disabilities. The successful recipient must demonstrate their capacity to work collaboratively with relevant stakeholders to conduct several activities including but not limited to:
- Develop a taxonomy for falls prevention research through an in-depth review of falls prevention literature that allows for a structured approach to data collection;
- Based on that taxonomy, collaborate with ACL to develop relevant research questions and methods for conducting research using core components; community-driven/community-based participatory research on falls prevention and falls risk factors; and structured (quantitative) data and unstructured (qualitative) data collection for subawardees;
- Develop a secure, dynamic system to house the data collected and evidence developed by sub-awardees, complying with ACL’s public access plan and policy in regards to scientific or research data collected as a result of this funding;
- Fund a cohort of sub-awardees that comprise community-based aging and disabilityfocused entities to pilot these approaches in order to understand and measure the extent to which existing interventions reduce falls and falls risk factors for falls;
- Provide technical assistance (TA) to sub-awardees on core components, participatory research designs to measure outcomes, and structured data collection using a relational database;
- Conduct both predictive and statistical analysis on research findings, and disseminate findings; and
- Promote, in partnership with ACL, the scaling and sustainability of effective practices that promote health and reduce injury specific to falls prevention and falls risk factors for older adults and older adults with disabilities.
Deadline: July 4, 2023
Eligible applicants include domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education.