AIBU to be concerned about the disabled being institutionalised in Bristol?

[Locutus2000]

The Grauniad

NHS England (which, alongside councils, is responsible for home care) has already introduced upper limits on the amount spent on supporting disabled people to live in their homes – a move the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned in 2017 would see adults “interned” in care homes in a "potential breach of their human rights“.

Others have “chosen” to go into residential care after their 24/7 care at home was reduced to dangerous levels or they could no longer pay the extortionate social care charges. I’ve spoken to disabled people as young as 30 who have been placed in nursing homes; millennials forced to live with elderly dementia patients old enough to be their grandparents.

My father worked in such an institution for decades - interestingly despite having heavy involvement in the transition to 'community care' he feels the environment worked well for some patients.

It all feels a bit Victorian asylum to me.

What’s the alternative if there isn’t the cash?

Chucking everyone together on mixed wards might be cheaper for you but it isn't the humane answer to the problem.

It’s been a political choice to starve local councils of cash so that they have to make these terrible decisions. The UK is a rich country (in comparative terms) and the government finds money to do what it really wants to do…useless PPE contracts for its pals costing billions come to mind.

In effect the policy change is turning the clock back to the times when physical or mental disability needing very high levels of support disqualified you from the right to live in your own home.

@Locutus2000 YANBU to be concerned!