I realise I'm probably very glib about this, but yeah. That's how state care services operate sometimes. Ideally, the managers in charge of providing the client a safe, welcoming home, will have met and engaged the client in some way, to try and develop a relationship with the client, so that the client gets to know and trust them. In the real world, this never happens. The manager reads a name on a referral, and puts a bum in a bed. The sad fact is that after state wards turn 18, there's no obligation for the managers to ensure that the client is safe and accounted for, unless that client is within the confines of the property. It doesn't matter whether the client is intellectually competent or not. And worse if the client is has a mental illness. If the client brought home a gentleman, we would ask him to leave. If our client was under 18, we would be obligated to have the police remove him as a trespasser, because we would have that duty of care for the client as a minor. Because she was an adult, mentally impaired or not, she still has the right to say "no, he is my guest, I want him here." Because it's her residence, she has that right. Hence the waiting and documenting whether he murders us or not.
(Boodicka, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 15:52, 1 reply)

Wow.
It makes sense as you explain it, her being an adult and all, but it still sounds all kinds of crazy to me.
That said, I know too little of UK mental health care to know whether it is any better here.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 17:44, closed)