Who can I talk to about low-key but persistent harassment by very vulnerable neighbour?

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There's a looong backstory with the poor old guy but I'll try to summarize.
My upstairs neighbour is elderly, frequently drunk, almost blind, and very confused.

He goes through periods of being obsessed with an imaginary 'noise' coming from my flat. There isn't one. I've been through every possibility. I realised the noise was thoroughly imaginary when he decided it was coming from a pool inflatable that had blown into the communal gardens during a storm. He knocks my door all the time, including yesterday, when he claimed the noise was happening at 3 o clock in the morning. I was, obviously, asleep at that time. Sometimes I ignore him but he's incredibly persistent and will also catch me on my way in and out. At one time he appeared angry, and I was actually intimidated, but now that's all over and he's sort of meek and apologetic about it, yet insistent about this 'noise'.

• I don't know who is landlord is
• Property management can't tell me who is landlord is
• I own my property
• I really don't want to call the police. Its not a police matter anyway. I'm not in danger, he's just disturbing my peace in my home.
• He periodically forgets about me and someone else (I think) becomes the focus of his obsessions, and I think, thank god it's over. Then he focuses on me again
• I have observed no social workers, family or friends checking on him. The only people I've seen going into his flat were the estate agents when the flat changed hands.

Any advice? Who can I contact? What he needs is social services or something. Can I just ring them up and say look, my neighbour needs intervention? Thanks in advance.

Yes, adult social care would be a good port of call. I wouldn’t tell them he needs intervention,
just tell them what you’ve noticed about his behaviour and why it concerns you. They should visit him in the first instance to make an assessment from there.

If that doesn’t help get some support, it wouldn’t be wrong to then report to the police. It’s still a welfare concern, for both you and him. You shouldn’t feel harassed and pestered by him, even if he’s behaving like this because of a medical reason.

Although my DGM never would have confronted her neighbours she was insistent that they were playing loud Christmas music all day long. It was a combination of her dementia and tinnitus I think. She was utterly convinced the noise was from the neighbour and couldn’t be persuaded otherwise.

I think that's the best way to go then. Hopefully they'll be able to assist.Thanks.

Adult social care unlikely to visit unless they think he may have care and support needs, if you tell them he seems to be living ok they won't do anything. If you say he seems at risk of self neglect or vulnerable they might. But worth contacting anyway, he may already be known to them. And they will record your contact so might build up a picture for future.