Description
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is seeking applications for a demonstration project to scale innovative person-centered approaches to falls prevention through clinical-community partnerships. The project aims to reduce falls among older adults by leveraging clinical and community partnerships and related data and technology tools. The successful applicant will be expected to collaborate with ACL in the design and implementation of the demonstrations and have the capacity to rapidly administer sub-awards to community care hubs that can implement and scale person-centered interventions. Key aspects of the project include:
• Scaling evidence-based falls prevention programs through the expansion of existing community capacity
• Leveraging healthcare and community care hub partnerships to deploy a falls prevention protocol
• Rapidly increasing access to screening, assessment, and interventions to reduce falls across five regions
• Using the CDC's Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) Initiative tool to screen people for fall risk
• Implementing the Stepping On program, a multifactorial community-based falls prevention program
The project has a total expected funding of $4,781,733 over a 36-month period, with a start date of September 30, 2026.