This project was carried out by Age NI on behalf of the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland (COPNI) in response to their request for a bespoke programme of peer facilitation with at least 50 individual older people across Northern Ireland, to include family members, carers, service users and stakeholders.

COPNI wanted to obtain data relating directly to the experiences of older people in receipt of, or eligible to receive social care in Northern Ireland as well as potential future users of adult social care. In particular, COPNI wanted to ascertain whether older people, their families and their carers are aware of what their entitlements to social care are and whether they support the recommendations from the previous technical research project