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Action stations: the way out for the forgotten generation
- Authors:
- HARRIS Jane, CORRY Paul
- Publisher:
- Rethink
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Thames
The focus attention was on the estimated 50,000 people who had been untouched by the government reform programme that has so far focused largely on people in need of acute care, thosebecoming ill for the first time and those in high secure care. The report defined the “Forgotten Generation” as those service users and carers who had been in contact with mental health services over a long period of time, whose needs had “stabilised” but whose quality of life remained poor. Service user and carer alike were getting by with minimal support from services and minimal contact with other people in a similar situation. Many had grown tired of the constant struggle to engage with services largely designed for those in crisis and had decided to “put up with their lot.” Remarkably, others were deemed “too well” to be able to access support, but were not well enough to get back into full-time work or to be otherwise socially included. They had been dropped off half-way along a road to recovery. All were hidden, silent and ignored.