At a glance
This program funds research on how social isolation and loneliness are linked to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in late life, with interest in neurobiological, behavioral, psychosocial, and environmental mechanisms. It is open to a wide range of applicants, including nonprofits, colleges and universities, governments, tribal organizations, for-profit organizations, and foreign organizations; clinical trials are optional, but if included they must be mechanistic clinical trials. Award budgets are not limited, the number of awards depends on NIH appropriations and meritorious applications, and the maximum project period is 5 years. No cost sharing is required.
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
This initiative seeks to solicit applications for research projects that address the link between social disconnection including both objective social isolation as well as perceived social isolation (otherwise known as loneliness) and suicide in late-life. Emphasis is placed on research that identifies neurobiological and environmental mechanisms associated with social isolation and loneliness that increase risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior in late-life, that uses an experimental therapeutics approach to identify targets and develop and test interventions to prevent late-life suicide, and that develops new and modifies existing service delivery models to enhance social connection in late-life to prevent suicide.
Who can apply
- City or township governments
- County governments
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than higher education)
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities / Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State governments