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TryggEst is a grant program supporting competence-building initiatives to prevent violence against vulnerable adults in Norwegian municipalities. The program provides funding for municipalities that have implemented or plan to implement the TryggEst program, which focuses on protecting vulnerable groups including people with developmental disabilities, elderly persons, and patients with reduced functional capacity. Municipalities can apply for funding to support training, course participation, local information materials, conversation groups for target populations, and awareness campaigns. The initiative aims to increase competence among municipal employees about violence and abuse, improve detection of violence cases, and ensure proper handling of such cases. Priority is given to municipalities newly starting the TryggEst program.

Startlån and grants from Lillestrøm municipality help individuals with long-term difficulties obtaining loans from regular banks to purchase or adapt their own housing. The program prioritizes disabled persons, people with reduced functional capacity, elderly individuals, and families with children to buy modest and suitable housing. The funding can be used to buy new or used housing, refinance loans with collateral in own housing if there is risk of losing the home through forced sale, take over housing, or adapt/improve housing for reduced functional capacity. Establishment grants are economically means-tested and given as an interest-free and installment-free loan to permanently disadvantaged individuals to help them acquire modest and good housing. Grants for investigation and project planning are available to all with reduced functional capacity who need to adapt their housing to be able to continue living there over time. The size of the grant is determined after a comprehensive assessment of economy, needs, and opportunities for support from other public support schemes.

Den kulturelle spaserstokken is a cultural grant program designed to provide professional art and cultural experiences for seniors in Telemark, Norway. The program is an economic support scheme that stimulates collaboration between the cultural sector and the health and care sector. The goal is to ensure art and cultural offerings at various cultural arenas, senior centers, nursing homes, and other venues where elderly people are present in their daily lives. The county administration manages the program and distributes grants to municipalities that carry out the activities. Individual municipalities are responsible for programming content and organizing events. The funding is distributed to municipalities based on the number of elderly people over 67 years old in each municipality, with a minimum allocation of NOK 20,000 per municipality.