Many countries are now providing grants to adapt homes, paying families for the care they provide and supplying helpers to give a hand with things like dressing and bathing.With far more people reaching a great age, a lot more such care will be needed in future.
They were known as Invacars and they were provided, free of charge, to people who couldn't use ordinary vehicles.They were phased out in the 1970s because they were accident-prone and people were given grants to adapt conventional cars instead.
Are there grants available to adapt your home to facilitate your parent's movements around the home, such as a stair lift, a stair rail and the installation of downstairs toilet facilities?
This success has led them to receive a $2.5 million grant from MasterCard to adapt those learnings and apply them to 50,000 farmers in Uganda.
Teachers in the town will be granted more flexibility to adapt RE classes according to the "make-up of their classroom", said a religious adviser.
Dr. Michael Epstein, a psychology professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., has been awarded a patent for his new scratch-off format as well as a $65,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology to adapt a scanning device to score it.
The grant will be used to adapt Xallent's nanomachine platforms to analytical instruments at CNF for validation, user-interface focus and reliability studies to ready the company for product launch and scale-up.
When the call from the Liberty Bell caretakers came in, the company had just received a grant from the National Science Foundation to adapt its wireless strain sensors, originally designed to measure the stress on knee ligaments, for use on bridges and other structures.
For a project focused on health care for the homeless in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins grant recipients were able to adapt a methodology used to track North Korean migrants into China to identify young homeless persons, a traditionally hard-to-track-down population.
As a result, Ed Holloway, executive director of services and support at the MS Society, says that although people can apply for grants from local authorities to adapt their homes, he is seeing "more people apply for MS Society grants because their council won't cover all, or part of, the costs".
