More and more psychiatric patients in residential care centers, staff are sounding the alarm: “We are absolutely not trained for this” | Interior

“Someone crawled into bed with fellow residents.” “A psychiatric patient who is an ex-boxer started slapping colleagues.” Staff in the rest homes raise the alarm. “More and more elderly psychiatric patients end up in ordinary residential care centers, without the support they need. That creates dangerous situations,” complains Flemish Member of Parliament Lise Vandecasteele (PVDA).