People living with age-related illnesses are falling through the cracks of a system designed to support the elderly. The system that enables them to remain living in their own homes when their health deteriorates assists with tasks that many of us take for granted yet are almost an impossibility for many elderly people. Carer’s exhaustion and burn out, jeopardized safety, greater pressure on hospital emergency services, family conflict, incidents and accidents, delayed medical intervention have all reached breaking point for sufferers and carers thanks to a backlog of unprocessed applications. 

I can speak from the experience I had when trying to integrate services for