Other societies such as many in Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, East Asia, and also the Caribbean and South America, do not normally share the tendency towards admission to nursing homes, preferring instead to have children and extended-family of elderly parents take care of those elderly parents until their deaths.
其他諸如南欧、东欧、东亚以及加勒比和南美洲，同常不會傾向讓老年人住到療養院，而是寧願讓孩子和其他家人照顧這些年邁的父母直到他們去世 。