The three friends renovated the crumbling high school building into a unique apartment complex, while keeping the school’s hallways, auditorium, and gym intact.
I’ve heard other psych nurses say that it would be nice to have a pseudo / super low acuity psych hospital / jail superlite where all the people who have been so chronically institutionalized that they can’t function in society can just check themselves into and chill semi-indefinitely instead of clogging up psych hospitals with vague suicidality complaints (some of them are probably legit, but most of them are realistically mild enough that they just need a $100 a month room with a bed, a locker, and one of those japanese style single-piece sink / toilet / shower stall units, and a cafeteria on the ground floor). Offer them ways out, job training, etc, but if they’re really just so fucked by the system that they just wanna do nothing and maybe occasionally go to the common area and do a word search while watching sitcom reruns just kinda… let them live their best life as they see it…? It’d probably actually be cheaper than constantly ripping them between different institutions and paying for nursing care, COs, etc. You’d probably still need a small amount of supervision but you’d need a much lower ratio of workers who don’t need as much training.
Yeah. Yeah that would actually be really nice and it would save a ton of money. Most people in that situation do want to get functional and live on their own though too, so I would expand it to include nearby housing that’s more expensive, more independent, but also in walking distance so they can come back and hang out or get more help when they need to.
I’ve heard other psych nurses say that it would be nice to have a pseudo / super low acuity psych hospital / jail superlite where all the people who have been so chronically institutionalized that they can’t function in society can just check themselves into and chill semi-indefinitely instead of clogging up psych hospitals with vague suicidality complaints (some of them are probably legit, but most of them are realistically mild enough that they just need a $100 a month room with a bed, a locker, and one of those japanese style single-piece sink / toilet / shower stall units, and a cafeteria on the ground floor). Offer them ways out, job training, etc, but if they’re really just so fucked by the system that they just wanna do nothing and maybe occasionally go to the common area and do a word search while watching sitcom reruns just kinda… let them live their best life as they see it…? It’d probably actually be cheaper than constantly ripping them between different institutions and paying for nursing care, COs, etc. You’d probably still need a small amount of supervision but you’d need a much lower ratio of workers who don’t need as much training.
Yeah. Yeah that would actually be really nice and it would save a ton of money. Most people in that situation do want to get functional and live on their own though too, so I would expand it to include nearby housing that’s more expensive, more independent, but also in walking distance so they can come back and hang out or get more help when they need to.