Volunteer with Dunhill Medical Trust

At a glance

Causes

Health and well being / research and care

Other details

Geographical remit:

National - Britain

Objectives

We invest in those who have great ideas and methods for improving the health and well-being of older people and in making the connections which can help them to flourish.

We’re committed to applying our resources to inspiring and enabling academic researchers (from across the disciplinary range) and health and social care professionals to apply their knowledge and skills to:

improving the quality of life, functional capacity and well-being for older people now, or
creating the context for change in the future: preventing, delaying or reducing future health and social care requirements.

We also want to play our part in informing and influencing the collective understanding of “what works” and enabling community organisations to develop innovative, evidence-led and best practice ways of delivering housing, care and support for older people and in driving the systemic change needed to secure a healthier later life for us all.

Activities

Identifying the important, but perhaps less well-funded, areas of research and directing our attention and resources to ensuring that they receive the focus and support that they need.
Backing well-designed research which is imaginative, novel and acknowledges that the complexity of the issues involved often need a multi-disciplinary approach if it is to have real and positive impact on the lives of older people.
Providing support to encourage leading investigators from all relevant disciplines to undertake work on ageing.
Providing support to institutions which can demonstrate leadership in and a long-term commitment to ageing-related research.
Providing support that delivers excellence in doctoral researcher training in ageing-related research.
Providing support for post-doctoral academics and research-active health and social care professionals so that trained PhD level investigators in ageing are not lost to other disciplines.
Convening networking events and organising meetings of specialists of varied disciplines and professions to scope the future priorities for ageing-related research and foster the collaborations that will tackle the challenges of delivering our strategic goals to improve health in later life.
Providing funding to support clear pathways to engagement and impact with community-led organisations.
Developing innovative, cross-sector partnerships – particularly with the research community – which are, or have the potential to be, transformational for the organisation or sector or transformational for the understanding of the issue. This may involve traditional grant funding models but also more innovative forms of finance.
Supporting evidence-informed, people-centred community programmes which make full use of the range of community assets – in particular, those which create age-friendly environments, connect older people to their wider community and enable them to stay in their own homes for longer.
Providing targeted funding to community-led organisations to enable them to develop their capabilities in developing financial sustainability, impact evaluation and communication.
Being proactive in supporting and developing productive networks, in particular aiding the development of relationships between the academic and practitioner communities.
Joining forces with high profile representative bodies to share the outcomes of our research grants and community-based projects.

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