Oz mum and son lay dead in house for week

The bodies may have gone undiscovered for more than a week. Photo / Thinkstock

The system has failed an elderly woman and a man believed to be her carer son, whose bodies have been found in a Brisbane house, doctors say.

Police found the bodies of the woman, 83, and the man, 51, at a house at Enoggera on Wednesday afternoon.

Media reports say the bodies may have gone undiscovered for more than a week.

Police say they are not treating the deaths as suspicious and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

Australian Medical Association Queensland president Richard Kidd says it is a tragic case.

"It's a system failure," he told reporters in Brisbane on Thursday.

"If we go back a couple of decades, the community was much stronger and there might have been a neighbour or someone checking on them on a regular basis.

"It speaks about community values breaking down."

-AAP