Age NI

Age NI is the leading charity for older people in Northern Ireland. The charity was formed as the result of the merger between Age Concern and Help the Aged in 2009. Our vision is a world where everyone can love later life.

Our society is ageing. More than 350,000 older people live here today, and there are more people over the age of 50 than under the age of 19. In the next twenty years, the number of people over 50 will increase by more than 30%.

As we grow older we face new challenges, and may face difficult issues like illness, poverty or loneliness. We still want to laugh, love and be needed. We want to stay independent and keep doing the things we love. We all want a fulfilling later life. Age NI believes that living longer should be celebrated and that those who need help should be supported. We exist to support more people to love later life now and in the future. We want to make people think differently about what it means to get older, because age affects us all in different ways. 

The charity provides a range of services across Northern Ireland including the Age NI Advice Service which deals with 10,000 enquiries every year; support for 11 sub regional older people’s networks to increase the voice and sustainability of older people’s groups at a local level; day, residential and domiciliary care to 1,200 clients every week in centres from Omagh to Castlewellan; policy and influencing activities to ensure that policy decisions made today will support more older people in Northern Ireland to love later life; a 1-2-1 service, First Connect, which supports older people who are in need of direct emotional and practical help in their lives at a time of crisis, perhaps through bereavement or illness; and products and services such as the Age NI personal Alarm, tailor made to support people over 50.

Find out more about us at www.ageni.org