That is not AT ALL unusual ; during my ( mercifully very brief!) career as a CNA way back in either the GHWB or first WJC administration , I saw a 90something mother and a 70something daughter sharing a room , a woman in her late 30s-early 40s who'd had a stroke and was no longer physically capable of doing things for herself, though mentally she was all there (and very  depressed, as her life was over and she could be there for another 3 or 4 DECADES), and a 17 year old boy, who had been in a car accident. He was physically disabled, and his parents could not care for him at home. Basically , if you're left physically incapacitated , you could wind up in a nursing home regardless of your age, if that's all  that's available and affordable in your area. Remember that poor woman who lost her face, her eyes, and her hands to a rampaging chimp? She was in her early 50s. She is now warehoused in a state-run nursing home, and will presumably be there till she dies, which may not be for another 30-40 years. I think about her every now and then, and while I have no idea if she'd agree with me or not , but....I think those doctors who "saved her life" , so she could be subjected to an existence such as she is suffering should have had the decency to let her die on the operating table.