National Quality Dementia Care Initiative Project Proposal

Please complete all fields as instructed (extend or shorten tables and boxes as required) and submit in MS Word format (.doc or .docx) by email to chris.hatherly@alzheimers.org.au. The document should not exceed 25 pages in length. All information other than letters of support should be included in this document. Proposals will be treated as commercial-in-confidence, but will be released to external assessors for purposes of review.

Contents

1. Project Details......................................................................................................................................12. Plain-English Project Summary............................................................................................................23. Evidence-Practice Gap.........................................................................................................................34. Barrier Analysis....................................................................................................................................45. Strategies and Outcomes.....................................................................................................................56. Impact and Sustainability.....................................................................................................................67. National Impact /Applicability.............................................................................................................78. Consumer Involvement........................................................................................................................89. Evaluation............................................................................................................................................910. Dissemination....................................................................................................................................1011. Project Partners.................................................................................................................................1112. Project Personnel...............................................................................................................................1213. Detailed Budget.................................................................................................................................1314. Project Plan/Timeline........................................................................................................................1415. Organisational Capacity.....................................................................................................................1516. Additional Information......................................................................................................................1617. References.........................................................................................................................................17

1. Project Details

Project Title

Project Leader(s)

Contact Details

2. Plain-English Project Summary

This summary should include a brief description of the project and explain what you intend to do. Include the aims or objectives of the project. Please also specify the target group(s) for this project. Maximum 500 words

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3. Evidence-Practice Gap

Practice-gap Describe the evidence regarding the extent and nature of the problem or issue in dementia care that the project is seeking to address. Use super-script numbering to include references as end-notes in Section 17.

Best-practice Describe the evidence showing that the desired outcomes of the project constitute best-practice dementia care. If there is limited evidence in the specific context or setting of this project, describe other relevant evidence.

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4. Barrier Analysis

A barrier analysis is a way of identifying the key barriers to changes in behaviour or practice. Barriers to change often exist at multiple levels (e.g., consumers/carers, care workers, health or medical professionals, management of institutions and organisations, and within high level regulatory or other systems). A multi-level barrier analysis can help both to direct and target interventions, and to determine their likely impact. For example, interventions to address barriers to practice change among care workers are unlikely to succeed or be sustained if related higher level barriers such as insufficient management support or inconsistent policies are not addressed.

With reference to the evidence-practice gap(s) that your project addresses, identify and discuss the most important barriers to best-practice dementia care at all relevant levels. Specifically identify which barriers are within and outside the scope of the project.

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5. Strategies and Outcomes

Describe in detail the strategies or interventions that will be used to address each of the barriers identified as within the scope of the project in Section 4 and outline the anticipated outcomes and their expected timeframes (short, medium and long term). Refer to supporting evidence for the effectiveness of the strategies/interventions where applicable.

Barrier Interventions / Strategies and Supporting Evidence Anticipated Outcomes

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6. Impact and Sustainability

Describe the expected impact of the project on the quality of dementia care in Australia and the potential benefits to individuals with dementia and their families. Explain how these benefits will be sustained after the end of the project funding.

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7. National Impact /Applicability

Describe the methods by which national impact of the project and project outcomes will be assured.

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8. Consumer Involvement

In order to be eligible for funding the project must have a plan for meaningful involvement of consumers (people with dementia and their families and carers) in all stages of the project. This involvement should go beyond participation of a consumer on an advisory committee. Describe the extent of consumer involvement in the project and how this involvement will be achieved.

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9. Evaluation

Describe how the project will be evaluated. This evaluation must be compatible with the evaluation and reporting framework developed by the program evaluators (attached). Provide details of the planned methodology (including instruments/indicators), data sources, analysis and reporting.

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10. Dissemination

Describe your plan for dissemination of the project outcomes. If relevant include strategies for dissemination of project outcomes to consumers.

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11. Project Partners

Provide a list of partner organisations and describe the role that each organisation will have in the project. Please also provide a letter of support from each project partner which clearly indicates their understanding of and agreement to their proposed role in the project.

Partner Organisations Role in the project

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12. Project Personnel

Provide a list of key project personnel, their role in the project (including the anticipated time that they will spend on the project) and a description of their relevant background and experience.

Key Person Role in Project Relevant Experience/Qualifications

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13. Detailed Budget

The maximum funding available through this program is $250,000 (excl GST). Provide a detailed itemised budget including non-Alzheimer’s Australia sources of funding and in-kind support. For external funding please indicate whether the funding has already been confirmed (and if so, provide a letter of offer or other relevant evidence). Identify and include any costs associated with consumer involvement in the project. Please indicate how much funding is being allocated to each partner organisation. Organisational overhead/administrative fees should be specifically identified and kept to a minimum.

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14. Project Plan/Timeline

Provide a detailed timeline for the project including major project milestones and deliverables as well as a summary of the tasks which must be completed to achieve these milestones. All projects must be completed by the end of 2013 (note that this has been extended from the deadline of mid-2013 specified in the call for EOIs)

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15. Organisational Capacity

Please provide information about the capacity of the lead organisation to manage the project, coordinate with partner organisations and meet reporting and other deadlines.

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16. Additional Information

Any additional information not covered in other sections should be included here.

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17. References

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