I would probably put my parents in Assisted Living Care before an actual nursing home. I know I'll be working a lot, being a lawyer, that I wouldn't be able to really make sure they were OK if they were living with me. The assisted living situation would allow them to socialize with people their own age whenever they felt like being socialable. They wouldn't want to hang around with me and my friends. They would also have nurses around 24/7 in case they should fall or get sick, etc. The nurses would be able to be more sensitive when they are sick, being they wouldn't make something out of nothing if I were taking care of them.

The only way I'd put them in a nursing home is if they had a broken hip that hadn't healed all of the way, they had a really hard time moving around, or they had Alzheimer's. They'd have to have something severely wrong with them.