Ageing Well National Science Challenge 2016 Contestable Round Plans

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Contribute to our planning

The Ageing Well NSC is making plans to run a Contestable Funding Round. This will help to build upon and expand the scope and potential impacts from the initial portfolio of research projects, while ensuring new people and ideas are incorporated into the Challenge’s work.

To inform the design of the round we are seeking your input by Friday 20 November.
Email administrator.ageingwell@otago.ac.nz

The Challenge has set aside funds of 2.8m to provide an Ageing Well Contestable Funding Round for research up to June 2019. The round will be targeted towards ‘gaps’ in the current research portfolio. It will prioritise projects which have the potential to be transformative—rather than “business as usual”—and we hope research results will help develop new multidisciplinary programmes for the second tranche (2019-2024) of the Challenge. Further details about our plans for contestable funding (including timeframes and process) will be provided by December 2015.

Ageing Well’s High-level impacts

An important element of the gap analysis to support the Contestable Round will be about delivering the high-level impacts we aim to achieve from Ageing Well’s research:

  • By 2025, national debate stimulated by Ageing Well research and associated stakeholder and public engagement has led to the development of a new government strategy to support maintenance of health and well-being of older New Zealanders
  • By 2025, local bodies across New Zealand recognise, and have incorporated into planning documents, the importance of age-friendly environments that facilitate engagement and participation by older Bew Zealanders and value their contributions to society and the economy
  • By 2025, the health and disability support needs of older Maori and their whanau, and Pacific peoples will be met by appropriate, integrated health care and disability support services
  • Ageing Well will develop transformative approaches to reducing the stark inequities in health and wellness outcomes that still exist for older Maori and Pacific people, leading to a narrowing of the outcome gaps. The Challenge-derived approaches will be championed by key District Health Boards, before uptake nationally.
  • By 2025, affordable housing strategies will have been introduced, that facilitate ageing in place, access to home equity and market diversity in housing options, as well as making available resources to assist older people make modifications to support timely planning for ageing in place
  • The work of the Ageing Well will deliver a relative reduction of people in residential care facilities in New Zealand, resulting from both reduced frailty and impact from debilitating conditions, and from innovative approaches to support ageing in place

More information is available:
Ageing Well Research and Business Plans

Get involved

We would love to hear from you about what you see as the key issue(s) associated with one or more of these high-level impacts. For instance—what is working? What could be done differently? What are the opportunities for further research to help deliver one or more of these impacts?

Please get in touch with us and let us know your views by Friday, 20 November to help inform the Contestable Round design.

Email administrator.ageingwell@otago.ac.nz