Sentence:  Anne Marie had been assigned a ‘constant supervision' status. ... Always avoiding the unrest of the television lounge, she would sometimes join some of the older ‘<WSD>acutes</WSD>' who sat isolated in metal chairs at the end of the hallway and gaze out of the window with them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.