My brother, my sister, and I, promised my parents that they would never be put in a nursing home if we could possibly avoid it. It turned out that they never were in a nursing home. I’m very thankful for that. If the circumstances were different, and they required 24/7 care and were bed ridden, we may not have been so lucky. Neither one suffered too bad for very long. My dad was 90 and really, really did not want to leave this world. He was driving 2 months before he passed, and was as sharp as a tack. One of the 10 commandments...Honor thy father and Mother. We always took that to heart.