It is a place for socializing, with someone taking care of the dispensing of medication on time. Sometimes I even prepare meals for them. The place is, however, lack of outdoor activities. It is a place where the disabled helping the disabled.
If I understand your question correctly.
Are you sure it is OK to take photos in there? In the hospitals here there are signs everywhere not to take photos. While we can just plead insanity for legal defence. The staff can make your life a misery while youâre in recovering. I myself wouldnât appreciate my photo being taken and then posted on the net while I was in recovery. So I just had to ask.
True, photos are not allowed in most places like that in the USâŚnot sure I remember where you are at but I think either US, UK our AUS⌠and all those places are pretty much same as far as photos, and even how much a visitor can see when visiting a patientâŚsome places however let visitors right on the units, just not in patients roomsâŚ
However in the past it wasnât that way and you can find several older pictures online from inside mental hospitals showing the conditions at the timeâŚ
they apparently had no privacy
Worchester MA, USA, 1949
Ohio USA
And some of these older places, mostly closed or demolished now, could be star attractions in horror movies:
Glenside hospital in Adelaide AUâŚthere be ghosts in there I do reckon!