If you’ve got an idea to empower older Australians to live free from disadvantage, we want to hear from you. IRT Foundation codesigns new community programs, pilots new service solutions and invests in leading Australian research.
Since 2009 we’ve invested almost $2 million in research, partnered with the Australian Human Rights Commission to increase mature workforce participation, cofounded the Age-Friendly Illawarra Alliance, and secured a $1.4 million Australian Government grant to pilot an integrated home care service for Aboriginal people.
We partner with governments, service providers and start-ups.
Learn more about IRT Foundation funded research and projects.
This project will provide a way for retirement villages to assess how dementia friendly their village is in terms of built design and wayfinding, and offer a selection of solutions…
This project provided retirement village residents with health information highlighting their personal health risks and opportunities for improvement in health status and quality of life.
This project looked at molecular chaperones as agents of the ageing process, with the ultimate goal of developing therapeutic drugs to combat ageing and age-related disorders and disease. The project…
This project hypothesises that, with education and support, older drivers can make informed choices about driving. This project is evaluating the impact of an established program that promotes safe driving for drivers aged…
This research gives insight into the way senior Australians think when doing physical exercise. The project examined how older people can get more out of exercise by reducing perceptions of physical effort to…
The aim of this project was to see if sleep problems and sleep medications could have a long-term impact on cognition for older people. The study looked at data from…
Our work is based on evidence and we measure our social impact through a framework developed in partnership with the Centre for Social Impact. We assist many leading Australian academics by providing assistance to researchers looking at issues affecting older people with access to participants or information.
In assessing our participation in these projects, we consider:
Communication opportunities for research findings
Adoption of research findings into policy and practice
Responsiveness to environmental changes in ageing issues.
In evaluating the effectiveness of our programs, our Social Impact Measurement Framework embodies our Theory of Change and uses evidence based indicators so we can measure change.
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