Dunhill Medical Trust call for proposals pre-announcement: building and delivering suitable living environments and communities for an ageing population
In November 2020, Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) published their priorities for the next five years in a new strategic framework (opens new window), including supporting a smaller number of larger community programmes, focusing in particular on those which create age-friendly living environments, connect older people to the wider community and enable them to stay in their own homes for longer.
DMT have now announced that they will be opening their call for a share of the £2.4m funding in mid-April 2021 for 5 weeks. They intend to fund c.6 projects from a 2-stage process; namely inviting expressions of interest stage in April and then a full application stage in mid-July, with successful applicants expected to be notified in October of this year.
The call aims to attract proposals focusing on a broad range of research topics, methodologies and approaches. For example:
- equity, diversity and inclusion in older people’s living environments and communities
- technological advances in older people’s living environments and communities
- older people’s pathways through housing and health systems and how various factors interact and affect long-term trajectories in living environments and health
- the impact of COVID-19 on older people’s living environments and communities and what we can learn for the future
- connections and community within and around older people’s living environments, including intergenerational studies
- architecture, design and the built environment within and around older people’s living environments and communities, including transport
- activities for older people within and around living environments and communities, including, for example, skills/knowledge exchange, cooking and gardening, among other activities