Not just that, but some nursing homes are abusive or plain don't care. It's awful. Even the luxury nursing homes have the same problem.

My great uncle bob would have lived longer if he weren't in a nursing home. He fell, broke his hip, and was laying on the ground for god knows how long. (My great aunt was with him at the time, so she told us this story.) He had to get emergency surgery, and then he fell AGAIN because he was wandering. Got surgery again and died of complications.

The poor guy had Alzheimer's and no one was watching him. Everyone at a nursing home knows that people with dementia and Alzheimer's wander around. But nope, they didn't care. They gave 0 damns. He should have been placed in a memory care unit, but they didn't do that. My great aunt kept pushing for it, but they were lazy and kept "losing" the paperwork.

I, personally, think that nursing homes (and even skilled nursing facilities) should be an absolute last resort. It's better to have visiting nurses when you can. The only reason we placed our grandma in a nursing home is that she had dementia AND bipolar, and we couldn't get visiting nurses to come over. And even then, we had her in IP before we put her in a nursing home. At least IP was more caring...

Sorry for the rant, but it does piss me off the way the elderly are abused.