Dorothy Lafferty, an 81-year-old grandmother, hopes to live long enough to help her 28-year-old autistic grandson, Andrew, leave the hospital where he has been for two years. New figures are expected to show an increase in the number of people with autism stuck in inappropriate placements.
An 81-year-old granny has told the BBC she hopes she lives long enough to get her autistic grandson out of the hospital he has been stuck in for two years.
It revealed there were 1,243 people in hospital, far from home or at risk of their placement breaking down.Andrew has been in a 20-bed adult mental health unit at Stobhill hospital in Glasgow for two-and-a-half years. He was then placed on a mental health ward when his symptoms became severe but was assessed as being fit to leave with the right support two years ago.
"If I can keep this going until I see Andrew out of there I’ll feel like I’ve achieved something in life."Dorothy says she has spent hours in the library researching accommodation and has been to dozens of meetings but there has been no progress.“He said to me last week: ‘Nana, is there a chance that you could live until you're 100?’".
"People have the right to live in their local community, to live near family and friends and have an ordinary life like the rest of us would want," she said.
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