Ms Kate Jarvey:

No, not yet. When this project began in 2014, it started with the research. We hired a research doctor to do a needs assessment because the core part of this project from day one has been the voice of the stakeholder. Once we identified the stakeholders' needs, we developed a project in response. I looked for a model of care that could respond to what the research showed us. The original piece of research completed in 2014 or 2015 was a revelation. It showed that the primary concern for our stakeholders, which I thought would be clinical, was not clinical, but was social isolation. I then began to look for a model of care that addressed the whole family, because social isolation was affecting the whole family. It meant they did not engage in the community they lived in and instead of being proactive members of the community, they were marginalised. I found the Aspen 2Gen model of care in the United States from a connection I had with United Way in central Indiana, which was using the 2Gen model. It was my eureka moment. We are the first to employ the 2Gen model for disability in Ireland. We would love to prove the model of the evidence-based platform of data and for people to copy us or expand the programme.