Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) Program

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Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) Program: The Administration on Aging (AoA) will hold a competition for grant awards to develop innovative approaches that enhance state systems and provide support to persons with Alzheimer's Disease and their family caregivers. All project periods are planned to begin July 1, 2007. Grant awards made under this announcement are subject to the availability of funds for the support of the priority area project activities described herein. With this announcement, AoA is continuing to strengthen the ADDGS Program by incorporating: 1. A requirement that applicants, in the formulation of their project proposals, review and use findings from the research on evidence-based service models and techniques for supporting persons with Alzheimer's Disease and their family caregivers. (NOTE: Evidence-based research is defined as controlled research that has been published in scientific journals). 2. A greater focus on using the ADDGS Program as a vehicle for advancing changes to a state's overall system of home and community-based care, including a requirement that project activities be linked to other state system change efforts, including state programs to streamline consumer access to services and family caregiver support programs. 3. Due to the focus on systems change, a requirement that the State Project Director will devote at least 25% of their time to the implementation and management of this project. 4. Implementation of an established OMB-approved data collection requirement that are necessary to fulfill our Government Performance and Results Act and statutory evaluation requirements. I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION The statutory authority for grant awards for the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program is contained in Sec. 398 of the Public Health Service Act (P.L. 78-410; 42 U.S.C. 280c-3). It was amended by the Home Health Care and Alzheimer's Disease Amendments of 1990 (PL 101-557) and by the Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998 (PL 105-392). AoA plans to fund approximately twenty-three (23) new one-year projects nationwide through this competition. The projects will be funded at a federal share of approximately $250,000 - $325,000 for a project period of one year (contingent on the availability of funds). A total of $7,473,249 has been allocated for these one-year grants. These 1-year grant options are available to all States that will not be receiving ADDGS funds as of July 1, 2007 or operating under a no-cost extension as of July 1, 2007. Section 398 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 398 et seq.), as amended, requires that grantees provide a 25% match (cash or in-kind) during the first year of an ADDGS project. Under this program, AoA will fund no more than 75 % of the project's total cost in the first grant year, which means the applicant must cover at least 25% of the project's total cost with non-federal resources. Waivers to these match requirements are not allowed. States can use ADDGS grant funds to carry out demonstration projects for planning, establishing and operating programs: 1) To coordinate the development and operation with public and private organizations of diagnostic, treatment, and care services provided within the State to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders and to the families and care providers of such individuals; 2) To provide home health care, personal care, day care, companion services, short-term care in health facilities, and other respite care to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders who are living in single family homes or congregate settings. (at least 50% of the total federal grant funds are to be spent on providing these direct services); 3) To improve the access of such individuals to home-based or community-based long-term care services, particularly such individuals who are members of racial or ethnic minority groups, who have limited proficiency in speaking the English language, or who live in rural areas; and 4) To provide, or to coordinate closely with Aging and Disability Resource Centers or other single point of entry systems to provide, to health care providers, to individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders, to the families of such individuals, to organizations established for such individuals and such families, and to the general public, information with respect to: (A) diagnostic services, treatment services, and related services available to such individuals and to the families of such individuals; (B) sources of assistance in obtaining such services, including assistance under entitlement programs; and (C) the legal rights of such individuals and such families. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain, and the most common form of dementia. Discovered and described in 1906 by Dr. Alois Alzheimer, AD now affects approximately 4 million Americans. Unless a cure or method of prevention is found, it is estimated that the number of Americans with Alzheimer's will climb to 14 million by the middle of the next century. Although AD is not a normal part of aging, one in 10 persons over 65 and nearly half of those over 85 may have Alzheimer's disease. A small percentage of people in their 30s and 40s also develop the disease. Although AD eventually results in death, the disease can progress for years. A person with AD lives an average of 8 years, but can live as many as 20 years or more from the onset of symptoms. To focus attention on this need, to encourage states to develop models of assistance for persons with Alzheimer's disease, and to encourage close coordination and incorporation of those services into the broader home and community based care system, Congress created the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) program in 1991. Congress transferred the administration of the program to the AoA in 1998, in an effort to ensure coordination with other programs for older Americans. To date, the ADDGS program has proven successful in targeting service and system development to traditionally underserved populations, including ethnic minorities, low-income and rural families coping with Alzheimer's disease. Since 1992, there have been fifty-one (51) states and territories funded through the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program. In FY 2007, nine (9) states are not eligible to submit an application under this Program Announcement, because they are continuing current ADDGS grantees. These states include: Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New York, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia. Applications are sought from State Governmental agencies; the applicant agency is encouraged to have the support and active involvement of the Single State Agency on Aging (only one application per state will be funded) to carry out the following two program priorities, as applicable. Requirement 1: Use findings from evidence-based research on service models and techniques to support people with Alzheimer's Disease and their family caregivers, in the formulation of ADDGS projects. ALL STATES MUST ADDRESS REQUIREMENT 1 Discussion With this Program Announcement, AoA will continue to move the ADDGS program towards the use of an evidence-based approach to service innovation. Consistent with AoA's new emphasis on the use of "the best available science" in designing and implementing community-based programs, it is AoA's expectation that ALL applicants will review and use available scientific research findings in the formulation of their project proposals. Possible evidence-based projects to review include, but are not limited to, findings from REACH (Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health) and REACH II projects (National Institute on Aging), Savvy Caregiver (University of Minnesota), Making Sense of Memory Loss (Mather Life Ways), and Reducing Disability in Alzheimer's Disease (University of Washington). Applicants are not expected to replicate research findings; but they are expected to review and use the existing research in formulation their project proposal and to document this process by citing in their proposals the specific research that was examined. Additional information on these and other evidence-based research that has relevance for the ADDGS program can be found on the AoA Alzheimer's Resource Room Web page detailing "Programs That Work." (www.aoa.gov/alz/public/alzprof/ADDGS/programs.asp) Requirement 2: Use the ADDGS project to improve the responsiveness of the state's overall system of home and community-based care to the needs and preferences of persons with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders, and link the project to other state systems change activities, including state efforts to streamline access to services and programs that support family caregivers. ALL STATES MUST ADDRESS REQUIREMENT 2. Discussion The Department of Health and Human Services, as part of the President's New Freedom Initiative, has provided states with a number of tools, in the form of various grant programs, that states are using to make their systems of long term care more responsive to the needs and preferences of people with disabilities and more supportive of home and community-based care. These "tools" include the National Family Caregiver Support Program, the Aging and Disability Resource Center program, the Real Choice Systems Change grants, and the Cash and Counseling Next Steps Program. As states look to the continued development of their home and community based care systems, it is essential they consider ways to ensure that their systems of care are responsive to the needs and preferences of people with Alzheimer's Disease and their family caregivers. As you develop your program, be mindful of how you will coordinate and collaborate with aging network partner agencies, such as state and area agencies on aging and providers; health care staff; community organizations that work directly with persons with dementia; and other appropriate entities to affect policy and service delivery at the state and local levels. With this grant announcement, we expect states to strategically advance changes in the state's overall system of care for people with Alzheimer's disease. In particular, AoA expects ADDGS activities to be coordinated with other state systems change activities, including efforts to streamline access (e.g., the AoA/CMS Aging and Disability Resource Center grants program) and to programs that support family caregivers (e.g., the National Family Caregiver Support Program). Applicants must include in their proposal their plan for working with the Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRC's), if any, or other single point of entry system currently operating in their state. Applicants must also include in their proposal their plan for offering some of their ADDGS-specific direct services (home health care, personal care, [adult] day care, companion services, short-term care in health facilities, and other respite care) using a consumer-directed model. Some states are already directing their service dollars to people with dementia and their caregivers using a variety of consumer directed models of care. There are a variety of models for offering consumer directed care. For more information, we encourage you to go to www.cashandcounseling.org to help you determine what consumer directed model of care would work best in your communities. AoA will not fund grant applications for discrete, stand-alone projects that are not connected to the state's overall system change activities. AoA understands that methods for advancing system change with ADDGS grant funds may vary from state to state. AoA also recognizes that not all states will start from the same position of integrating Alzheimer's Disease programs into their long-term care system. Accordingly, to help ensure no state has an undue advantage or disadvantage in competing for funds under this announcement, AoA will evaluate proposals based on the extent of the progress a state expects to make under the grant in advancing system changes, not on the current status of state efforts to support people with Alzheimer's Disease and their family caregivers. States that already have systems that include major elements of the ADDGS Program will be successful only to the extent that further progress can be demonstrated (e.g., by adding additional functions, expanding geographical coverage, expanding target group coverage, etc.).
Federal Grant Title: Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) Program
Federal Agency Name: Administration on Aging
Grant Categories: Income Security and Social Services
Type of Opportunity: Discretionary
Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2007-AOA-AZ-0703
Type of Funding: Grant
CFDA Numbers: 93.051
CFDA Descriptions: Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States
Current Application Deadline: No deadline provided
Original Application Deadline: May 14, 2007 See link to full announcement for de
Posted Date: Apr 13, 2007
Creation Date: Apr 13, 2007
Archive Date: Jun 13, 2007
Total Program Funding: $7,473,249
Maximum Federal Grant Award: $325,000
Minimum Federal Grant Award: $250,000
Expected Number of Awards: 23
Cost Sharing or Matching: Yes
Applicants Eligible for this Grant
State governments
Link to Full Grant Announcement
Information not provided
Grant Announcement Contact
Lori Stalbaum
[email protected]
[email protected] Lori Stalbaum
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