Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0989241

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0989241

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Transition to retirement by adults with chronic disabilities: increasing community capacity. This project will contribute to healthy, productive ageing by people with chronic disabilities. This group are living longer and will retire from their disability-specific supported employment and day program services. They then risk social exclusion, loneliness and associated poor health outcomes. This project will provide training and support to local community groups and voluntary work settings, to increase community capacity to support this group to participate actively in and contribute to their community in retirement. This will result in increased participation by this group and improvements in their well-being. Training resources developed by the project will be available to disability service providers nationally.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-05-2009

End Date: 01-07-2012

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $336,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mental Health | Public Health and Health Services | Care For Disabled | Social Program Evaluation

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health related to ageing | Changing work patterns | Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) |

Other Keywords

Care For Disabled | Changing work patterns | Health related to ageing | Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) | Mental Health | Public Health and Health Services | Social Program Evaluation

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