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<blockquote data-quote="HaoZi" data-source="post: 593612" data-attributes="member: 15793"><p>Well, to make care giving easier on the family, to start with you need to get the insurance companies to stop denying care, especially in those cases where above and beyond care (i.e. Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and whatnot) is needed. Respite is hard to come by in many areas, too. It's certainly not available in my area, though if I lived one county over it would be available to me. </p><p></p><p>A statewide computer network to let police know to "handle gently" due to mental health would be nice. I would think they could use the same or similar software as offender network, but make it voluntary (so people or their family, like worried parents, could add them to the network, with their diagnosis's and useful advice like "Engage in talk about trains" or "Avoid talk about dogs" "Do not approach until calm and talking" etc.) unless the person is already a violent offender or police have reason to add the person to the network themselves. Then if a parent or sibling, etc., has to call an emergency in, they can say this person is in the network and all the info is right there for the responding officers. Perhaps there could even be something similar to a medication Alert bracelet (but obviously different) to signal to emergency personnel in case they show up and are unaware, with a number engraved that corresponds to them in the system (which could also prevent bad medication reactions in emergencies, if their medications are kept up to date in the system).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HaoZi, post: 593612, member: 15793"] Well, to make care giving easier on the family, to start with you need to get the insurance companies to stop denying care, especially in those cases where above and beyond care (i.e. Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and whatnot) is needed. Respite is hard to come by in many areas, too. It's certainly not available in my area, though if I lived one county over it would be available to me. A statewide computer network to let police know to "handle gently" due to mental health would be nice. I would think they could use the same or similar software as offender network, but make it voluntary (so people or their family, like worried parents, could add them to the network, with their diagnosis's and useful advice like "Engage in talk about trains" or "Avoid talk about dogs" "Do not approach until calm and talking" etc.) unless the person is already a violent offender or police have reason to add the person to the network themselves. Then if a parent or sibling, etc., has to call an emergency in, they can say this person is in the network and all the info is right there for the responding officers. Perhaps there could even be something similar to a medication Alert bracelet (but obviously different) to signal to emergency personnel in case they show up and are unaware, with a number engraved that corresponds to them in the system (which could also prevent bad medication reactions in emergencies, if their medications are kept up to date in the system). [/QUOTE]
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