Aged Care Services – Specialist Dementia Care Program Cardiff (NSW) and Caulfield (VIC) Grant Opportunity

Overview

The Specialist Dementia Care Program (SDCP) is a new Australian Government initiative. The program will provide a person-centred, multidisciplinary approach to care for a small number of people exhibiting very severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), who are unable to be appropriately cared for by mainstream aged care services. The program will offer specialised, transitional residential support, focussing on reducing or stabilising symptoms over time, with the aim of enabling people to move to less intensive care settings. This grant opportunity offers targeted non-competitive grants to the invited organisation to establish and operate two specialist dementia care units in Cardiff, New South Wales in the Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network, and in Caulfield, Victoria in the South East Melbourne Primary Health Network.