Little or no help
My mother has bipolar disorder and her husband has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. As his condition deteriorated she became more and more manic and out of control. My attempts to get help from her GP, social services, access & assessment were all fruitless. After police calling at her house after one incident and even her arrest after another I still got nowhere. This made my step father's last few months even harder than it should have been, for him, for her, family and staff at the nursing home. Since his death, my mother has become acutely depressed and still the help has been minimal. After a day in A&E I was told she should be admitted and 2 hours later no beds available. 4 weeks later the story was the same.