Hm... its hard to say... personally, i won't be living with my parents when they get that age... but ya. I have a lot of love and respect for them and i don't know if I'd be able to trust the nurses at nursing homes. My mom is a nurse and she has told em that some of the nurses at those places treat the elderly like crap.

Exactly. But then again, the concept is relative to the society. Society in the west is much more progressive. And a lot more families send their elderly parents to old-age homes (which could be better at least in that they're getting 24x7 care). In India, society still has a long way to go. So here most old people generally stay with their families. A very weird thing happened a couple of months ago. I was out with a couple of friends and we went to a local grocery store and there we see an old woman sitting alone outside with a bag of clothes in her hands. Apparently she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and did not have much of any idea how she got there. We investigated and found out that she'd been dumped their by her son - who had apparently taken off for UK with his family and he didn;t want her burden on his shoulders. Poor woman. When asked, she said she was waiting for her son to take her home. It was so heart-wrenching. We eventually got her into an old-age home.