Those 'Life Alert' pendants became quite the target of parody (or
at least their adverts did) in the US a decade or so ago. The
advert featured an elderly woman with a particularly 'old ladyish'
voice lying in a heap on the floor, pushing her button saying
'Heeeelllp! I've fallen and I can't get up.' That led to tons
of comic offshoots. Never mind that the product is brilliant, and
a life-saver.

Concerning closure of public hospitals and mental health facilities,
here in the USofA Ronnie Ray-gun started it when he shut down the
State Hospitals while he was governor of California. He turned out
thousands of mentally ill people to the streets, where they've lived
ever since.

When he got into the White House he promptly did the same for the
whole country, by withdrawing any federal aid funds from such programs
and facilities.

The rest is history; in the US our mentally ill folk are now 'treated'
by the police. Their 'asylum' is a subway station or sidewalk heat
vent, or perhaps a cardboard box.