My mums late 80s .... she lives alone but I go there almost daily....
Today I walk in and she yells help me and there is poo everywhere ! She just kept on pooing it was everywhere.... even in her fingernails and toenails big logs on floor etc
She said she couldn't get upstairs to wash and I had to use a bowl to clean her up... as I'm cleaning she's still pooing and weeing herself.
She has that emergency thing around her neck and someone came but said they cannot help with holding her up while I wash or help me try to get her upstairs....
Just makes me think if I wasn't there who would have helped her no carers etc and this surely.happens to many more older people. It's really hit me that she was in this state and there was no help available for being left in your own poop and pee ( she had been like it over 24 hours)