Florida school shooting

[dennishoddy]

But we still have nursing homes and memory care units that are just as guilty of neglect and atrocities as the mental health care facilities that are still in business after "cleaning up" their facilities or being shut down on an individual basis.
We have not abandoned the nursing home or memory care facilities, yet the government shut down the entire mental health care facilities nationwide.
Something is not right, and we are paying for it.
Edit:
My wife and I travel over a hundred miles one way once or twice a week to visit the FIL in a memory care center, and have the lead in facility and care levels. We are fully into the elderly care system as we speak, and it sucks.
We have found meds on the floor, toilets leaking, food on the floor, blah, blah, and don't just go to the floor supervisor, but make a point to drive over the next day and have a face to face with the facility supervisor if we come over on a weekend.
We never show up on a regular day. Random visits.
You have to stay on top of them. It's easy for a compliant patient(like FIL) to get ignored and inadvertently get neglected because they don't cause any issues to keep the staff alert to their situation.

 

[Glocktogo]

So...Hollywood and activist lawyers are at fault:
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" demonized confined mental health care
Activist lawyers no doubt worked simultaneously to make it much more difficult to institutionalize the mentally disturbed

It's a lot of people's fault in this case and they run the gamut as far as sociopolitical leanings.

Mental health "reform" goes back to Dorothea Dix in the mid 1800's, when she led reform to move the insane from prisons to psychiatric hospitals and state facilities. That lasted about a hundred years, when "deinstitutionalization" commenced in the mid 1950's. The thought was that people no longer needed to be institutionalized due to advances in drug therapies. For a great many people, it works and has continued to improve. But that's only for those who can be trusted to take their meds regularly, or be in the care of someone who will ensure the meds are taken by those who can't be trusted. For the rest it's the streets, or jail and prison.

If you have time to read them, here are a couple of great articles on the topic to see how we've gotten where we are, and another on how we might be starting to swing back towards institutions, at least for some of the toughest cases.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdpjz/the-life-death-and-possible-resurrection-of-the-asylum

 

[Glocktogo]

Found another EXCELLENT article that's incredibly well sourced. it deserves it's own post!

https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/madness-deinstitutionalization-murder