Advancing Research on Empirically-Supported Interventions for Older Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications for research focused on the optimization, delivery, sustainability, and effectiveness of empirically-supported interventions for addressing the mental health needs of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI). The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to foster research that will inform and support the optimization, delivery, sustainability, and effectiveness of empirically-supported practices for addressing the mental health needs of older adults with SMI. Applications may propose research related to adapting, optimizing, and implementing efficacious treatment and services interventions and strategies to improve clinical and functional outcomes among aging populations. Some key aspects of this opportunity include: • Adapting, optimizing, and implementing efficacious treatment and services interventions and strategies to improve clinical and functional outcomes among aging populations • Examining mutable factors that impact fair and impartial mental health care access, utilization, quality, and outcomes and may serve as targets for intervention development for older adults with SMI • Developing and testing innovative treatment and service interventions that address barriers to accessing quality mental health care • Focusing on systems-level factors and approaches for addressing SMI and improving access to evidence-based interventions in later life