The National Institute of Health (NIH), part of the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), has begun to solicit applications for
federal grants to study ways to provide “palliative care” to older
Americans at points earlier than end-of-life—including during time spent
in assisted living facilities, short-term and long-term care
facilities, and even ambulatory care.
“Palliative care”
is specialized medical care for those with serious illnesses. Though
this type of care can be given along with curative treatment for
illness, its main focus is on providing patients with relief from the
pain, symptoms, and stress of a serious illness rather than curing the
illness or disease itself.The Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) for the grants, which are worth up to $275,000, specifically state that they will be awarded for research on geriatric populations who are not in “hospice and end-of-life settings,” but, rather, “in settings and at time points earlier in geriatric patients’ disease of disability trajectories.”
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