This funding opportunity supports research projects investigating the relationship between social disconnection—including both objective social isolation and perceived loneliness—and suicide risk in late life. It emphasizes identifying neurobiological and environmental mechanisms, applying experimental therapeutics to develop interventions, and enhancing service delivery models to prevent late-life suicide through improved social connection.
Eligible applicants include a wide range of organizations such as county, state, and tribal governments, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, institutions of higher education, small businesses, and various federally recognized and community-serving institutions.
