It is increasingly common for families to send their elderly relatives to live in nursing homes rather than take care of them at home. This essay will highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks that have resulted from this switch.
Looking firstly at the positives, a significant advantage is that care home are often much better equipped to deal with the demands of elderly people than family homes. For example, nursing homes do not usually have stairs, and for those which do, stair-lifts or elevators need to be installed. This means that the typical mobility problems which tend to appear among geriatrics are not exacerbated. Not only this, but the staffs who work at the nursing home have been professionally trained to manage the needs of the elderly. It is rare for family members to own these skills.
However, care homes for the elderly also present some advantages, the most obvious of which is the lack of loved ones around. Although it is possible for friends and relatives to visit nursing home residents, the visits can be infrequent, and loneliness are often the consequence. To make matters worse, it has been shown that those who are lonely are at greater risk of becoming depressed and having their immune systems weakened. Furthermore, care home residents are often surrounded by illness and death. Such an environment is likely to deprive of happiness and trigger severe depression.
In conclusion, despite the benefits of specially-trained staffs and well-equipped facilities that nursing homes can offer the elderly, the drawbacks of loneliness and its concomitant depression should also be taken into consideration. 
It is  
increasingly
 common for families to  
send
 their  
elderly
 relatives to  
live
 in nursing  
homes
  rather
 than take  
care
 of them at home. This essay will highlight  
some of the
 benefits and drawbacks that have resulted from this switch.
Looking  
firstly
 at the positives, a significant advantage is that  
care
 home are  
often
 much better equipped to deal with the demands of  
elderly
  people
 than family  
homes
.  
For example
, nursing  
homes
 do not  
usually
 have stairs, and for those which do, stair-lifts or elevators need to  
be installed
. This means that the typical mobility problems which tend to appear among geriatrics are not exacerbated. Not  
only
 this,  
but
 the staffs who work at the nursing home have been  
professionally
 trained to manage the needs of the  
elderly
. It is rare for family members to  
own
 these  
skills
. 
However
,  
care
  homes
 for the  
elderly
  also
 present  
some
 advantages, the most obvious of which is the lack of  
loved
 ones around. Although it is possible for friends and relatives to visit nursing home residents, the visits can be infrequent, and loneliness are  
often
 the consequence. To  
make
 matters worse, it has  
been shown
 that those who are lonely are at greater  
risk
 of becoming depressed and having their immune systems weakened.  
Furthermore
,  
care
 home residents are  
often
 surrounded by illness and death. Such an environment is likely to deprive of happiness and trigger severe depression. 
In conclusion
, despite the benefits of  
specially
-trained staffs and well-equipped facilities that nursing  
homes
 can offer the  
elderly
, the drawbacks of loneliness and its concomitant depression should  
also
  be taken
 into consideration. 
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