Elderly care homes have professional medical and nursing staff on site, so far better care can be provided than most families can offer in their homes. It's a

Elderly care homes have professional medical and nursing staff on site, so far better care can be provided than most families can offer in their homes. It's a separate matter as to whether families make adequate effort to visit and spend quality time with their ageing parents/grandparents when they've been put into a home. In the case of my family, my mother visited her parents daily for the last few years of their lives, and my partner's mother and aunt now visit their mother daily too - both before and since she was put into an aged care home. Other families may not be as attentive and that's sad, but it's a separate issue as to whether aged care homes are good places for elderly people to live.