It is a traditional Chinese belief that parents should be looked after by their children until they die. In this rapidly developing world, people go out and work until late at night. The elders are left alone at home and dangerous things might happen to them. The young generations may consider their old parents and grandparents a burden for them. Therefore, sending them to nursing home may be one of the possible solutions to this burden and there are many advantages for doing this.
First, nurses in nursing home are more professional than we do. They are trained to take care of the elderly, especially those who have lost part or all of their faculties, who need special treatments all the time. For example, some elders can only get off their beds with aid of one or two nurses. Falling slightly on the ground may lead to serious defects to the elders' health. Besides, elderly people may feel embarrassed when their children help them in cleaning their bodies but this is the job that the nurses do everyday. Therefore, nursing home seems to give better care to old people than an ordinary house. .
Second, staff in nursing home is ready for orders 24 hours a day to serve the aged people with medical care. This cannot be done by the elders' children, because they need to go to work and earn a living. If they stay home the whole day, where can they get the money to live on? Also they may collapse if they stay to look after their old aged family members for 24 hours. However, this is not a problem for the nursing staff, because they take turn to look after the aged people. Immediately medical treatment can be given to the elderly patients because there are doctors in each nursing home. Thus, it is safe for the elderly people to live in nursing house.
Third, the elders would find it more interesting to live in a nursing home than at their own flats. They have their own social circles before but due to the loss of their physical abilities, they are forced to remain at home.