What is going on in this house?

[Neighbourmystery]

Right, this is going to sound nosy but here goes...
A house in a street I know was owned by an old lady with no family. When she died, her house stood empty for nearly a year then it started having work done. It's been bought by a health service far away from he town we live in (think I live in Liverpool and NHS Devon and Cornwall bought it) BTW these are not the real locations. So, they do lots of renovations, including putting a much higher fence up which has a key code entry they also put frosted film on every window. There's a new build extension on the side with coded keypads too. This is where 2 carers are. There are 4 carers altogether, 2 at a time and then a swap. There is one man who lives there . He is in his 30s , able bodied can move well etc I've seen him once or twice in the garden in a whole year. Another twice I saw a darkened van come to get him. He was only gone for an hour or so then back.
I cannot imagine the scenario this might be. I'm not curtain twitching and permanently watching but I am fascinated.

Mum didn’t have a house to sell. And her income meant that she made a considerable contribution to her care package - LA care isn’t based on assets and savings alone. Having said that, the cost would have been considerably more to the tax payer had she needed residential care.

And yes, l acknowledged that we were lucky to be in a position to be available to help. Even the LA social care adviser admitted it was unusual because most families run a mile when they hear the word dementia. But l wouldn’t characterise the care provided by the LA as simply an addition. The services that were engaged were an integral part of her care as we are both in our later years and have health problems of our own. We couldn’t have managed without the support we had.

To move someone into a care home against their will is very difficult, and rightly so. As her LPA it was made clear to me that capacity is considered fluid and that all decisions l made for her should be at a suitable time to allow her as much input as possible - periods of lucidity were fairly frequent until the last year of her life and l had to take this into account. Clearly where there are safeguarding issues, then moving into care would be appropriate but IME with mum, her wishes were considered as far as possible.

Another inflammatory poster
edited to say I can see you are also doing it to others, so I wont take offence, feel free to report my posts if you feel they are argumentative

I don’t think the poster was insinuating that you had said anything like this, but some posters were leaning towards it. And the provision of care for younger people with difficult to manage conditions is a very different conversation to that of elderly care because the needs are very different.

Some MH conditions are inappropriate for more traditional care settings though. As l said upthread, many families across the country are struggling with violent and disruptive family members, much of the time without little or no support, simply because there aren’t enough of these types of facilities available. In these cases it’s placements within more traditional care settings which would be risky, if not impossible.

I think this has been highlighted recently with the two very high profile cases mentioned upthread. Rather than being the fault of the disabled people in question they were as a result of fundamental failures in care and risk assessment.