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When Motts has finished photographing every major abandonment, this is where he'll depart our world, teleported back to the mothership. His work here will be complete.

who in their right mind would want to enter here.........this image is scary to say the least

what is the difference between isolation and seclusion they seem the same to me your away from the common element either way

agreed ...

agree with all the comments above......must say this is the most compelling shot yet...you really catch the feeling of this old asylum if only the walls could talk

i see what silkster mentioned. another hallway i wouldnt go down if you paid me.. forget the soothing colors and wall mural even if i had been a patient it would of been kicking and screaming ..as an observer i would be going in the other direction to the nearest exit

another hallway i wouldnt venture down unless being chased by the hounds of hell........otherwise beautiful shot

i give up ive stared at this picture for about 10 minutes and i can see nothing other than the beauty of the shot

Lots of facilities, including community-based homes, still use safety belts for people who have poor trunk support or who cannot stand safely and risk breaking their heads open if they try to walk and subsequently hit the floor. However, it is true now as it was then that people, when they are short-staffed, use safety belts as an erstwhile protective restraint because there aren't enough staff there to watch every client as they use the toilet.

Of course, if you watch a client who is using the toilet so that you can be there to assist them when they stand, you are accused of violating their privacy. And since the majority of folks who live in these places do not have the ability to understand that many of them can't stand or walk safely . . .

Looks like staff are damned if they do and damned if they don't, eh? :-)

thats a good question? a close family friend grew up in pennhurst she had quite a few problems adjusting to life outside of those walls took her along time to get herself adjusted being as the first 27 years of her life were spent there. she was placed there as an infant never really knew who her family was...spent alot of time helping her find out information.. she now knows who she is..and really doesnt care who she was..and ironically she wont talk about what happened to her while she was there she told me i wouldnt be able to deal with it..she knows me too well i guess.........

it amazes me that the curtains in these buidings seem to be in pretty good shape(most of them) for buildings that have been empty for 20+ years

We've been in and out of those halls. There quite intresting.. lonley.

If it wasn't regulated patients would become morbidly obsese...

pink floyds awsome!!!!!

i worked in a nursing home and these were not only used for hydro, they were used for daily baths. it did have a chair on the front that was detachable so you could wheel it into the patients room,if they couldnt bear weight a lift was used to lower them in the chair , then you could wheel them right to the tub, hook them up and use a pedal to raise it and away they went. from my experience, most didnt like going up in the air, and alot were freaked out by the water going almost up to their necks. as for the temps. if it got to a certain temp an alarm would go off so you knew you were too hot. ours hand a hose built in and a few levers for soap and cleaner, some had a built in scale too .