Many elderly people are no long looked after by their families but are put in care homes and nursing home. What are advantages and disadvantage of this trend?

In modern society, families often send their elderly relatives to nursing homes than taking care of them at homes.

This

essay will highlight the important benefits and drawbacks of

this

switch.

To begin

with positives, these nursing homes are better equipped than family homes in looking after old people as they are built while taking into consideration the needs of them.

For example

, most care homes do not have stairs, and which do have they have stair-lifts or elevators to facilitate the mobility of

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lderly. Another reason for care homes, the staff is professionally trained to undertake the demands of them, and they are relatively abler to understand and detect any symptom of a disease when they present. The nursing homes

also

have some disadvantages, most obvious of which is the lack of loved ones around them.

This

is often tending to elicit a feeling of loneliness among them, and eventually cause

depression

as a consequence.

For instance

, most elderly desires to live with their children and grandchildren, when they cannot they longs for them, and ultimately fell into

depression

. To make matter worse, they are often surrounded by illness and death, and

this

environment could curtail their happiness, and eventually results in concomitant

depression

. To conclude, despite the benefits of

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pecially built institution and professionally trained staff, nursing poses problems of loneliness and despair, and concomitant

depression

should be taken into consideration.