I've heard other psych nurses say that it would be nice to have a pseudo / super low acuity psych hospital / jail superlite where all the people who have been so chronically institutionalized that they can't function in society can just check themselves into and chill semi-indefinitely instead of clogging up psych hospitals with vague suicidality complaints (some of them are probably legit, but most of them are realistically mild enough that they just need a $100 a month room with a bed, a locker, and one of those japanese style single-piece sink / toilet / shower stall units, and a cafeteria on the ground floor). Offer them ways out, job training, etc, but if they're really just so fucked by the system that they just wanna do nothing and maybe occasionally go to the common area and do a word search while watching sitcom reruns just kinda... let them live their best life as they see it...? It'd probably actually be cheaper than constantly ripping them between different institutions and paying for nursing care, COs, etc. You'd probably still need a small amount of supervision but you'd need a much lower ratio of workers who don't need as much training.