Funding Available for Long-term Care Health Services Research

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) continues to support research on many aspects of long-term care, including studies relevant to both residential and community-based settings of care.

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Long-term care issues cut across several of AHRQ's priority research areas. For example:

• Improving Quality and Patient Safety—e.g., evaluating strategies for integrating patient safety and quality measurement and improvement into various care settings, including long-term care.
• Improving Access, Fostering Appropriate Use, and Reducing Cost—e.g., studying effects of new relationships among acute, subacute, and long-term care facilities; and the impact of transitions between ambulatory and other settings, such as formal and informal long-term care.
• Improving Care for Priority Populations—e.g., developing cost-effective long-term care delivery models that improve the health and functioning of the elderly, the chronically ill, and persons with disabilities; and examining how to integrate varied levels of care (preventive, acute, chronic, long-term) and coordinate across multiple sites and settings.

Current AHRQ Program Announcements (PAs) which may be relevant to long-term care research include:

• Impact of Payment and Organization on Cost, Quality and Equity (PA-01-125), which invites studies, including methodological studies, relating to how financial and organizational structures and processes affect health care services.
• Patient-Centered Care: Customizing Care To Meet Patients' Needs (PA-01-124), which seeks proposals to redesign and evaluate new care models that increase patient and family decisionmaking and involvement in the care process, especially for chronic disease management.
• Translating Research Into Practice (PA-02-066), which invites researchers to address how research translation and dissemination strategies vary from one type of organization (e.g., hospitals, home health agencies, long-term care facilities, etc.) to another. This is a joint PA with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

AHRQ also supports long-term care projects within its Integrated Delivery System Research Network. In addition, AHRQ has funding opportunities for both large and small research grants and conferences, as well as educational and career development awards. These include:

• AHRQ Health Services Research (PA-00-111) and AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (PAR-01-040), which express AHRQ priority interests for ongoing extramural grants for research, demonstration, dissemination, and evaluation projects.
• AHRQ Grant Program for Large Conference Support (PA-03-117) and Small Grant Program for Conference Support (PAR-00-141), which invite applications for conferences to develop research agendas, examine methodological issues, and disseminate health services research findings.
• Grants for Health Services Dissertation Research (PAR-00-076), Predoctoral Fellowship Awards for Minority Students (PA-00-069), National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships (PA-99-005), Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (PA-00-010), and Independent Scientist Award (PAR-99-164), which provide an array of research training and career development opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral students and newly independent investigators to address critical health care delivery issues, including long-term care.

These announcements and other information on AHRQ funding opportunities are available at: www.ahrq.gov/fund.

AHRQ Publication No. 04-M010
Replaces AHRQ Publication No. M002
Current as of November 2003

Internet Citation:

Funding Available for Long-term Care Research. AHRQ Publication No. 04-M010, November 2003. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/ltcfunds.htm

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