Innovations in Alzheimer’s Caregiving Awards
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The Family Caregiver Alliance is now accepting applications for the annual Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Awards.
The Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Awards seek to recognize organizations that are responding to a community need with a program or project that focuses primarily on family caregivers of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Nonprofits, tribal organizations, federal, state, and local government agencies, and universities are eligible to apply for an award of $20,000 in one of three award categories:
- Creative expression: Programs or projects that use novel, creative approaches to support persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their family/informal caregivers
- Increasing access and reducing stigma: Programs or projects that address a gap or chart a new way to deliver services, support, or outreach to family/informal caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias in diverse racial/ethnic, age, religious/spiritual, LGBTQ+, rural/remote, limited income, and other groups of caregivers with unique needs
- Public policy: Programs or projects that advocate for policy or systems changes for the benefit of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and/or their family/informal caregivers
Applications are due on Monday, October 19, at 11:00 p.m.
The Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Awards seek to recognize organizations that are responding to a community need with a program or project that focuses primarily on family caregivers of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Nonprofits, tribal organizations, federal, state, and local government agencies, and universities are eligible to apply for an award of $20,000 in one of three award categories:
- Creative expression: Programs or projects that use novel, creative approaches to support persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their family/informal caregivers
- Increasing access and reducing stigma: Programs or projects that address a gap or chart a new way to deliver services, support, or outreach to family/informal caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias in diverse racial/ethnic, age, religious/spiritual, LGBTQ+, rural/remote, limited income, and other groups of caregivers with unique needs
- Public policy: Programs or projects that advocate for policy or systems changes for the benefit of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and/or their family/informal caregivers
Applications are due on Monday, October 19, at 11:00 p.m.