ACL is announcing 10 new state grants totaling $12,657,503 over three years under its Lifespan Respite Care Program to strengthen services, expand partnerships, and reduce barriers to respite care. The program supports family caregivers of all ages, disabilities, and health conditions. Respite care provides caregivers with a much-needed break, helping protect their health and well-being. These new grants will strengthen state respite systems and help ensure that caregivers and families have better access to high-quality, sustainable caregiving support.

ACL’s Eldercare Locator uses its annual Home for the Holidays campaign to encourage conversations about older adults’ well-being and connect families with helpful community resources. Kicking off November 17, this year’s campaign focuses on assistive technology. Ahead of the launch, this webinar will help the aging network better understand assistive technology and how it can help older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers.

Through the 2027 request for proposals, Community Care Corps will continue expanding a nationwide network of locally driven volunteer programs that connect families with practical support and strengthen communities.

ACL's National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is pleased to announce seven new DRRP grants totaling approximately $4.7 million in first-year funding. The purpose of the DRRP program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, trainings, and related activities to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology.

The awards, made through ACL’s National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), keep a nationwide resource operating for people with disabilities, employers, public agencies, businesses, and others who want to understand and carry out the ADA.

The Jewish Federations of North America’s Center on Aging, Trauma, and Holocaust Survivor Care is inviting practitioners, researchers, and others working in aging services to propose 60-minute, in-person sessions sharing their experiences with person-centered, trauma-informed approaches. Proposals may highlight a promising practice or program model, research findings, challenges encountered in the field, or lessons that could help others strengthen their work with older adults.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Community Living (ACL), today announced $35,763,912 in fiscal year 2026 funding for 68 new grants from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).

The center will advance ACL’s caregiving strategic priority by increasing services available to grandfamilies and kinship families. Its work will support the health and well-being of caregivers, children, and parents and help implement the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers by scaling replicable models that support grandfamilies and kinship families in their caregiving roles.

ACL’s Administration on Aging is awarding a new cooperative agreement to ADvancing States to support the National I&R Support Center. The National I&R Support Center advances ACL’s strategic priority of connecting people to services by helping older adults, people with disabilities, caregivers, and families connect with information, services, and supports.

The center will provide training, technical assistance, and resources to State Lifespan Respite Care Program grantees, their partners, caregivers, and the broader respite care network.