Day eight: one week after 6 July — still no documents
Seven days after the forced admission, Trudy and her family have still not received the order or the medical statement. The independent client confidential adviser has been engaged, and the search for specialised legal counsel is in full swing.
This is a factual account of where things stand, exactly one week after the forced admission of 6 July 2026. These are facts, not opinions. Readers can form their own judgement.
Seven days, no documents
On 6 July 2026, Trudy — 82 years old, living independently in her own home in Gouda for more than thirty years — was taken from her house that same day and admitted to a closed care facility in Amsterdam under an emergency detention order (IBS).
Today, one week later, this still holds: neither Trudy herself nor her family has received the order or the medical statement that are supposed to underpin this admission. These documents have been requested repeatedly.
The Care and Compulsion Act (Wet zorg en dwang) — the law under which Trudy was admitted — applies, by its own text, to people with a psychogeriatric disorder or an intellectual disability. Trudy has COPD, a lung condition. What diagnosis was placed at the basis of her admission, by whom, and on the basis of what examination, has to this day not been communicated to the family. The medical statement that should contain it has never been provided.
On what grounds, and on whose authority? Seven days on, that question remains open.
A telephone call
On 13 July, Trudy spoke with her son by telephone. In that call she repeated, lucidly and consistently with everything she has said since 6 July: she never consented to the admission, and she wants to go home.
A statutory safeguard: the client confidential adviser
The Care and Compulsion Act provides every involuntarily admitted client with a client confidential adviser (cliëntenvertrouwenspersoon): an independent official, not employed by the care institution, free of charge, and with a statutory right of access to the client. The confidential adviser supports the client — and those close to her — with questions concerning involuntary care.
That statutory safeguard has now been engaged. The confidential adviser for the location contacted the family, and the family responded the same day — with the request to visit Trudy and to support her in making her own wishes known.
Specialised legal counsel
The family is urgently approaching lawyers who specialise in psychiatric patient law and the Care and Compulsion Act, so that Trudy — as the law expressly allows her — can appoint a lawyer of her own choosing.
As on every page of this site: no names are given and no conclusions are drawn. The facts are on the record; judgement belongs to the court — and to the reader.