It amazes me how social services work, once there is a hot poker proding them, they actually begin to give a damn about patients and their families. I have a patient on a ward who has been there for a long time (nearly a year) and needs unconcious nursing care at home, purely to support the family, who already provide all of the care. Yet due to legislations and a gap there is no way of resolving this problem! Ridiculous springs to mind! Hope you manage to cope with the black dog better than i do!