MRFF – Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission – 2025 Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant Opportunity
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – 2025 Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Grant Opportunity aims to support research that will help to improve quality of life for Australians as they age.
The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:
- Stream 1 (Priority area 2.3; Targeted Call for Research) conduct implementation research focused on addressing inequalities in uptake of prevention activities for:
- Topic A: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Topic B: rural, regional and remote populations
- Topic C: culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
- Stream 2 (Priority area 3.1; Targeted Call for Research): conduct implementation research to understand the barriers and enablers to, and impact of, the adoption of the key components of high-quality care for older Australians across:
- care settings
- population groups (either by disease type, age group or other characteristic).
This grant opportunity is intended to support projects that progress research that addresses a specific health need.
The intended outcomes of the research funded by this grant opportunity is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:
- Stream 1 (Priority area 2.3; Targeted Call for Research): implementing interventions that extend healthy, active years of life amongst vulnerable populations.
- Stream 2 (Priority area 3.1; Targeted Call for Research): improving implementation of best practice care for older Australians.
This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care’s MRFF website.
