Personal Care homes exploded all across America and a lot of people had jobs that required nothing more than baby sitting adults.
Yes, there were serious mental problems that perhaps (only because I don't know) should have been institutionalized.
MY inner pain was seeing magnificent red brick buildings being razed and some othe functional building put in it;s place.
Those red brick buildings had a character all their own that I instinctively knew were now on the list of extinct things in human life that humans caused.
Mostly you are correct. It’s a lot more than babysitting, but basically yes. Many are adults with metabolic disorders that kept them from mentally maturing, and shaken babies who are now adults. Also lots of autistic spectrum.