"Care in the community" is in theory a good idea but ONLY if it is adequately funded and has adequate professionals to carry out appropriate visits etc - which unfortunately it isnt.

The old style asylums have been shut down and to be honest probably for the best as traditionally people could end up in the asylum for life when treatment would likely have solved most the problems!!

Not sure to be honest. Although the local situation has only been resolved through work by mental health charitys asking for clarification and basically theyve had to come to an agreement to avoid it becoming publically known and messy political implications from it being widely known that a certain age group cant get help. Wether thats been driven by just the local charity, or if its new adherance to a national NHS policy or adherance to a NHS policy that had been convieniently forgotten is yet to be determined.