Rehab and re-training for mental illness

[purpletigron]

Does anyone reading have experience of the new arrangements in England and Wales for NHS continuing health-care? Particularly, whether it can be focused into work to re-habilitate and re-train sufferers of mental illness to move back to independence from institutionalisation?

http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/Documents/FS20NHS_continuing_healthcare_and_NHS_funded_nursing_care.pdf

(Mater could easily live for another 25 years, and our experiences so far not encouraging as far as rehabilitation as opposed to 'palliative' care are concerned.)