Needless to say, my grandmother was put in a home and fed all kinds of drugs to keep her there.   Old people are a revenue farm of the owners of Nursing Homes. I hate to say it, but it is better for old ladies to fall in their homes, break their hips, and lie there for 3 days to die, than to go into a nursing home for 4 or 5 years and add $200+/day to the coffers of some other entity.