Feeling Better:  People will respond and generally feel better if they are aware that there other people taking a genuine interest in them and their life. 

Involvement:  Another aspect is to provide the person with a feeling of being involved in the community and the world by providing a window to explore, connect and participate.

Connecting:  For families the ability to easily and speedily connect to loved ones, ensuring that everything is OK could be the means to reduce some of those guilty feelings we all have from time to time. 

Reduced Health Costs: One of the key cost benefits would be a reduction in health costs due to facilitating the means for isolated people to regularly communicate with their friends, family and key health carers.   By connecting with loved ones there will be a reduction in the feeling of loneliness and depression the building blocks to medication problems, hospitalisation and suicide.

Less Hospital Cases:  People are often hospitalised due to either failing to take their medication, taking it twice or in incorrect doses.  Knowledge Communities reminder system advising the person about when to take their medication and in what qualities, would surely be able to reduce the number of these type of hospital cases.

Community Care Efficiencies:  Case workers would be more efficient by being able to attend to the people under their care in a low cost, direct and more frequent manner.  They would be able to set reminders, appointments and alerts to assist them with the monitoring process.

Reminders:  Another benefit would the reminder system advising the person about appointments, birthdays, events and health checks.  This would reduce any missed appointments due to forgetfulness.