The demand for aged care services is continually growing with more older people choosing to age in place and living longer. This leads to more complex care needs, stretching the workforce across broader geographical areas with limited access to the specialist skills needed to support place-based care and provide high-quality care at the scale needed in the future.
The sector recognises that recruitment and traditional workforce solutions alone will not address this challenge, and there is opportunity to support and augment the current workforce to meet these increasing and complex needs.
The Accelerator Grants will fund projects that augment the current aged care workforce to deliver specialist care, support, knowledge and resources to where they're needed via digital or assistive technology, telehealth, or innovative workforce and human service models.
The Accelerator Grants will fund the expansion of approaches that have evidence of success. Projects will test the approach in a different setting, location or with a different group of care recipients. Acknowledging that not all approaches are scalable or transferable to different contexts, these grants provide the opportunity to test an evidenced solution for its potential broader scalability across the aged care sector.
Grants of up to $100,000 are available via one grant round, with a requirement for matched co-contribution (cash and/or in-kind). Applications must include an aged care organisation and a research organisation.
Applications now open
Application documents
It is recommended that you download and save a copy of the application form, and work on the application on an MS Word desktop application.
If you have any questions or issues, please email agedcarecollaborative@ariia.org.au
