text: is it moral to send one's parents to an old age home when they are helpless & need your love? can we ever compensate for the love and care they gave us in our childhood and how many sacrifices they did towards our upbringing? most old age homes are horrible and don't take care of your love ones, trust me i know, one of my relatives died in one from neglect. there's an old saying, "they have taken care of you, now it's time to take care of them." i would never send my parents to a home. my brothers, sisters and i took care of our father when diabetes took his sight, had 2 heart attacks, was told he only had six months to live, gone through 2 amputations, and damaged his kidneys. my mother has hypertension and kidney failure and i will be there for her until the very end. some people do not give their parents enough credit for the sacrifices and love that they have given them. i personally believe that placing parents in a home is a terrible resort unless you are completely incapable of taking care of them yourself.