{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260101339"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260101339","attributes":{"code":"DE260101339","administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","announcement-administering-organisation":"The University of Queensland","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-07-01","anticipated-end-date":"2029-06-30","grant-summary":"Dying with Dignity. Caring for people without a home at the end of life. This project aims to better understand preferences, perspectives and opportunities to improve end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness. Dying with dignity is often equated with the wish to be dying at home, yet, more and more Australians do not have access to a stable home. This project expects to generate knowledge on what it means to die well in the absence of home from which to approach the end of life. Expected outcomes include nuanced knowledge on the complexities of care for the dying beyond place, while refining sophisticated research methods. This should provide significant benefits, including progress towards establishing homelessness community and hospice care pathways to enable dying with dignity for all Australians.","funding-current":467856.00,"funding-at-announcement":464429,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Stefanie","familyName":"Plage","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-7217-3806 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Stefanie","familyName":"Plage","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0001-7217-3806 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"The University of Queensland","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4410","name":"Sociology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"441008","name":"Sociology of Culture","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"441011","name":"Sociology of Health","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"441012","name":"Sociology of Inequalities","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"200204","name":"Health Inequalities","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230109","name":"Homelessness and Housing Services","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"230113","name":"Structure, Delivery and Resourcing","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":[],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"This project aims to produce knowledge for health and social policy in contemporary Australia to improve end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness is well-known to affect a person’s access to care, morbidity and longevity, shortening life on average for 10 years in comparison to a housed peer.  Managing care, pain and stress towards the end of life is challenging–even more so without a home while relying on informal and formal caregivers whose resources are constrained. More frequent acute care requests from emergency departments and ambulance services are the results, despite community and hospice care being better equipped to meet a dying person’s needs and wishes. Yet, there are currently few dedicated care pathways in Australia, and none in Queensland, for people experiencing homelessness at the end of life. This incurs economic, personal and social costs for individuals, communities and health systems that can be significantly reduced if end-of-life care addresses the complexities arising from homelessness. Timely referral to dedicated end-of-life care teams and settings should lower economic costs from inappropriate acute services utilisation, and prevent people from having to face dying alone and in pain. This project aims to lay foundations for such significant benefits by communicating findings directly to practice and policy communities through workshops and developing a theory of change underpinning homeless end-of-life care in the future."}}}