ACL is pleased to announce the 2024 awardees of falls prevention grants. The six selected grantees include health care systems, academic institutions, municipalities, and community-based organizations. They will receive approximately $3.5 million in combined funding to implement an array of evidence-based falls prevention programs in six states across the country.
Collectively, these grantees are expected to reach approximately 7,000 older adults and adults with disabilities in the next four years. A key focus of this initiative is engaging underserved populations, including rural, low income, and/or Spanish-speaking older adults, and/or older adults who are blind or vision impaired. Grantees will reach participants through innovative remote and in-person delivery and work with diverse partners, including emergency response services, health care systems, and aging network organizations.
In the United States, an estimated 1 in 4 older adults falls each year, which can have a serious impact on their health and reduce their ability to remain independent. Many of these falls are preventable. One way to mitigate the risk of falling is to participate in a falls prevention program. Evidence-based falls prevention programs have been proven to reduce falls and the fear of falling by targeting known modifiable risk factors with education, exercise, strength and balance training, and home modification. ACL’s falls prevention grantees will build capacity and implement evidence-based falls prevention programs in their respective communities.
2024 Falls Prevention Grantees
- Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Kansas
- Metropolitan Community Health, North Carolina
- New York State YMCA Foundation, New York
- Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island
- San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, Texas
- University of Iowa, Iowa
The project period for these grants is June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2028. During that time, in addition to the above activities, the falls prevention grantees will work to identify ways to sustain their programs after the conclusion of the grant.
For questions about ACL’s falls prevention grants, contact donna.bethge@acl.hhs.gov.
See Notice of Funding Opportunity: HHS-2023-ACL-AOA-FPSG-0005, "2023 Empowering Communities to Deliver and Sustain Evidence-Based Falls Prevention Programs," posted November 9, 2022.