Cooperative Agreement D261IHS0194

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $548,308 cooperative agreement to Education Health & Research International Inc. under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (PPHF) program. The award will support the delivery of evidence-based falls prevention programs to older adults from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2027 in New Jersey. As described in the program description, these cooperative...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $549,327 cooperative agreement to the Atlanta Regional Commission under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (PPHF) program. This project will expand access to three evidence-based falls prevention programs across the metro Atlanta region from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2027. As intended under the PPHF program, the Atlanta Regional...

The University of Iowa was awarded a $599,295 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (CFDA 93.761) program. The funding will support the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based falls prevention programs for older adults and adults with disabilities in Iowa over a 4-year period from June 2024 to May 2028....

The New York State YMCA Foundation received a $599,969 cooperative agreement from the Administration on Aging (part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (CFDA 93.761) program. The purpose of this 4-year award, which commenced on June 1, 2024, is to implement and sustain evidence-based falls prevention programs for older adults and adults with disabilities in New York. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $600,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living under the Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs Financed Solely by Prevention and Public Health Funds (CFDA 93.761) program supports Metropolitan Community Health Services Inc., a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center, in implementing and sustaining evidence-based falls prevention programs for older adults and adults with disabilities in rural Eastern...

The National Institute on Aging awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) totaling $544,163 to Care.coach Corporation to implement and scale the CDC's STEADI fall prevention algorithm using a conversational relational agent for community-dwelling older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment. The project aims to develop and rigorously test a digital STEADI intervention that leverages Care.coach's conversational AI and virtual health assistant platform to screen older...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (ACL) under the "Special Programs for the Aging, Title IV, and Title II, Discretionary Projects" (CFDA 93.048) program provides $1,924,078 to the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center (doing business as Hebrew Senior Life) in Boston, Massachusetts. The award period is from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The funding will support the "Enhancing Elder Shelter...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Trustees of Boston University totaling $501,631 will support a study to evaluate how proteomic signatures of frailty respond to a physical rehabilitation intervention in older adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The key objectives are to: 1) Identify how the circulating proteome changes with physical rehabilitation in the REHAB-HF trial and how these changes relate to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary provides $632,334 to investigate the contributions of vestibular, somatosensory, and visual dysfunction, as well as deficits in central sensory processing, to imbalance and falls in older adults. The research aims to develop a personalized, holistic understanding of imbalance and advance a theoretical framework relating sensory measures to neural variability....

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $179,100 Formula Grant to the District of Columbia Government Office on Aging through the Elder Abuse Prevention Interventions Program (CFDA 93.747). The grant will support the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions and programs to prevent elder abuse, neglect and exploitation from August 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. As the official description notes, this program aims to...