It started with coffee in the lounge of the most exclusive and opulent club in the UK, the House of Lords. I was there meeting Baroness Elaine Murphy and Professor David Jolley – two old age psychiatrists who share my passion for better care of older people with mental illness. We had a meeting with the Law Commission later that morning about a planned revision to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) legislation, so we had arranged this get-together, amongst the oak panelling and the portraits, to plan what we were going to say…
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