Oral Health of Special Needs and Older Populations

The summary for the Oral Health of Special Needs and Older Populations grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Oral Health of Special Needs and Older Populations: This Program Announcement is to encourage investigator-initiated clinical research focused on the oral health of special needs populations, including those with developmental or acquired physical or mental disabilities, people with mental retardation (MR), people living with HIV/AIDS, and frail or functionally dependent elders. The types of clinical research welcomed are epidemiologic, behavioral/social sciences, health care, patient-oriented and community-based studies aimed at understanding and improving the oral, dental and craniofacial health status, quality of life and health outcomes among elders and other special needs populations. Given the complexity of factors that may contribute to oral health disparities of these populations the use of multiple approaches and interdisciplinary teams is anticipated. Studies that nest oral health projects into ongoing, funded research are encouraged. The research interests of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research are described in the NIDCR Strategic Plan (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/about/strat-plan/) and in A Plan to Eliminate Oral Health Disparities (http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/healthdisp/hdplan.pdf).