Young man with intellectual disability to be discharged from hospital into community

An intellectually disabled young man detained in hospital since November due to concerns about the serious effects of his persistent failure to take necessary medication is to be discharged into the community with supports, writes Ann O’Loughlin.

The detention was ordered following an emergency application by the hospital to have the man made a ward of court when he went there in November in what the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, described as a "wretched" condition, seriously underweight, incontinent and at risk of sepsis".