Call for applications: Advancing the Use of Evidence in Seniors’ Home and Community Care Program

15 January 2025

Applications are now open for a new funding opportunity that brings together health authorities and researchers to improve seniors’ home and community care.

The Advancing the Use of Evidence in Seniors’ Home and Community Care Program will fund teams of researchers and research users within BC’s health system and academia to implement and evaluate the outcomes of evidence-based interventions.

The program will provide evidence to help decision-makers across BC to support programs that help seniors to live longer, healthier lives more independently in their communities.

The Advancing the Use of Evidence in Seniors’ Home and Community Care Program is funded through two stages:

1. Letter of intent (LOI) for a development award

These awards will support applicants to:

  • develop a plan to implement and evaluate an evidence-based intervention in seniors’ home and community care; and
  • build multidisciplinary teams (including healthcare decision-makers, healthcare providers, researchers, trainees, people with lived experience and community members) to support that work.

Team composition

The LOI must identify individuals to fulfill the following roles:

  • Primary applicant co-lead – The individual who launches and submits the LOI must be based at a BC health authority. The primary applicant co-lead should have experience delivering integrated care and using evidence to inform clinical practice in seniors’ home and community care.
  • Executive sponsor – A senior decision-maker (executive director or higher) within the BC health system with authority over implementing and evaluating evidence-informed interventions related to seniors’ home and community care. An individual may serve as both the executive sponsor and primary applicant co-lead.
  • Evaluation co-lead – An individual with a research appointment at a BC academic institution who will design and lead the evaluation of the intervention outcomes and its implementation in collaboration with the co-lead(s) and team.

The LOI application will include space to capture any additional team members who will participate in the work during the development award. Refer to Section 4, Team Composition of the guidelines for full details.

The applicant LOI deadline is March 24, 2025.

Development award recipients will be invited to submit a full application.

2. Full application for a team award

Successful applicants will receive a team award to develop an implementation plan for their intervention that specifies the desired outcomes for both the intervention and its implementation. Teams will also implement the intervention and evaluate the outcomes during the term of the award.

Key dates

  • Webinar (register): January 29, 2025
  • LOI deadline (applicants): March 24, 2025
  • LOI deadline (host institutions): March 31, 2025
  • Anticipated notice of LOI funding decision: Late April 2025
  • Full application deadline (applicants): October 8, 2025
  • Full application deadline (host institutions): October 16, 2025
  • Anticipated notice of full application funding decision: December 2025

For full program guidelines, including eligibility and the application process, visit the funding program page.

Applicants are encouraged to register and attend the applicant information webinar on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10 a.m.

Since this is a new funding program, we welcome and encourage you to reach out to Health Research BC with any questions you may have, especially about the program requirements and eligibility. Connect with us via email at prioritybasedfunding[at]healthresearchbc.ca

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