Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but they vary in the levels of crap . In my experience when old people enter residential care or hospital they will rapidly go downhill. Keep him at home and buy in outside support funded by Social Services would be my suggestion, if you cant do this, make sure someone who cares about him goes in to check on him frequently, check that he is actually eating and not losing weight, being cleaned adequately, wearing his own clothes not someone elses etc etc, dont settle for a crap service, ever . The Mail ran an article on this a few days ago, sorry i cant remember how to post a link . If anyone does have any positive care home experiences anywhere i would be very interested to hear this too .