How does AUS handle people who are disabled who have no family?

In the States a disabled person becomes a ward of the state, if they are unable to care fully for themselves.

When an adult (over 18 or 21) in the States is hospitalized and there is no caregiver volunteering to take over care "at home" they will discharge the disabled person to long term care home.

Quite often people (family at home) are rather roped in to caring for someone being discharged from a facility here in the States. IF one does not want to be a caregiver one simply says "There is no one at home, including my self, who can take care of him/her at home...". Then they will assign a medical social worker and or a case manager to FIND a care home OR care AT home; depends on situations.

No one HAS to be a caregiver at home. Not a spouse or a parent or adult child. Unless the child is a minor in the case of a parent, even then, if a parent is unable to care for a child at home, they become wards of the state and are admitted to a State home, or a rehab center, long term care home.

Am not an expert on this, so if anyone has any experiences on this, please share?