should there be old age homes

I think every situation is different, I know when I was looking after my mother with alzheimers I almost had a nervous breakdown, there are situations where the elderly in their want to stay in their homes can make it very difficult tor their carers, I never wanted to put my mother in a nursing home, it broke my heart but when I did I could see she was so much better off with the carers who knew how to treat her properly, medical care around the clock and they know just how to treat people with the conditions that they have, the elderly can become like children again and these trained people know how to treat them to make them behave rather than playing up to get their own way...it is sad that there has to be places like this but in my case I say thank God because I could not have coped....