Posted on 02/28/2018 4:45:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Those who suffer from any of the mentally impaired diseases; once determined to eligible for disability benefits receive a wide range of welfare support. Living in a small midwest city, I recall one state government apartment building for the elderly was forced to take mentally ill persons. Before the residents moved around freely, room to room and in their community activity area. After the mental cases came the elderly stayed in their room with doors locked and all community activities ceased. The old folks could not come out of their rooms after dark - too dangerous. Even alcoholics became eligible for welfare and some of them moved in.
Our church put on some programs for the elderly but it all came to an end.
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People with Alzheimer’s aren’t mentally ill but the loss of memory and being unable to deal with the real world is also devastating.
They need extremely expensive and specialized care. And taxpayers wind up footing the bill for them.
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False dichotomy. If sGOVT weren’t taking 50%+ of every dollar (usually requiring all heads of household to work), in the middle of COUNTLESS, unauthorized/unconst. areas of our lives, *FAMILIES* can care (or have the $$ necessary to care for) their loved ones.
That’s true although, in the old days, the family was much larger so they could accommodate a sick relative. Now everyone works.
This same declaration of failure was revealed in 1984. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all
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That’s true although, in the old days, the family was much larger so they could accommodate a sick relative. Now everyone works.
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How ‘bout we just get GOVT smaller and OUT of our lives *then* see where adjustments can be made.
I’d bet $-2-donuts it would ‘solve’ a *BIT* more than the ‘2-birds-1-stone’
I saw this first hand with a former coworker. She has a son who is extremely schizophrenic. She figured out early on that she could do nothing to help him. She tried for years to get him into a state facility. Eventually, this kid lost it and killed her parents.
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