Problems in the Nursing Homes

In most nursing homes, the elderly are experiencing loneliness and depression due to the cause of people not visiting them and showing them the love and attention they deserve. I feel that the real problem of nursing homes is that the elderly do not have the same love they once received before they arrived to that particular nursing home, which can possibly lead to poor health. According to statistics, patients in a nursing home who doesn't have family/friends to come visit them have a lower health rate then the patients who have family/friends visitaion. (LegacyProject, 1) I believe that this isn't a very healthy way for an elderly person to spend their potential last days on earth; lonely and with poor health. If at least one person would visit an elderly patient in a nursing home, then the rate of health would increase.