Retirement Research Foundation

Grants for Research or Professional Education & Training will be awarded in support of projects that aim to improve the quality of life for the adult population, age 65 and older. Projects must be broadly disseminated and have national relevance. Priority areas include:

• Caregiving: Ensuring that care partners (including family members, friends, or neighbors) are informed, well-trained, and supported as they care for older people in community settings.
• Housing: Promoting efforts that make housing more affordable and provide coordinated services that enable older people to remain living in the community safely and with dignity.
• Economic Security in Later Life: Valuing the dignity of older people through efforts that ensure and protect their economic security and well-being.
• Social and Intergenerational Connectedness: Reducing isolation and loneliness in later life through efforts to strengthen meaningful social bonds, including those that span generations.

Letters of Inquiry are due by March 1, 2022. Selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals by May 1, 2022.