The state forced Katelyn apart from her mother, who has dementia, for two years. She says her mother was left without important medical care as her guardian struggled to manage an excessive workload.
When Dan started suffering from memory loss and anxiety, it kicked off a chain of events that left him living in a nursing home against his will with little say over his future.
A beloved great-grandmother lay in a morgue for 10 days before her aged care facility told her family she was dead.
Joyce Savage died on February 14 in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, the day after she was admitted by staff at her aged care facility, where she lived for five years, for continuous vomiting.
The 89-year-old dementia sufferer s daughter Kaye Davis was not told her mother had died until February 23, when Acacia Living Group s Menora Gardens called to ask her to collect her things.
She claimed someone from the facility asked on the phone: Did you know your mother died?