Seniors’ knowledge was to be expanded through an inclusive social project to develop their power to act. To reach this goal with respect to home support for seniors, a research-action project was carried out in three communities. Researchers supported participants during a process of identifying their strengths, resources and challenges, and of then choosing and implementing an intervention. The interventions chosen had to do with outdoor maintenance, community transit and housing. Obstacles appeared during the process involving the length of the study, the planned timeline, the complexity of the chosen interventions and participant involvement. Research implications arise from the study results and the obstacles encountered with participant recruitment and integration, support, openness and flexibility, relationships of power and adapting the process to the characteristics of participants.