The health and social care needs of older people are varied and complex and often require the involvement and expertise of a number of professionais. Practitioners who provide services for older people have skills that have been historically defined by different training and professional pathways and often work for different health and social care agencies. There is significant interest in interprofessional working. However, its development has been shown to be a process that can be easily complicated when structural and professional factors are not considered or understood. As a result, further research on the factors that underpin effective interprofessional working will be central to this approach.