Nursing homes were first introduced in the twentieth century (Hicks, 2015). Prior to that it was the family members’ responsibility to take care of their elderly, mentally ill, and disabled at home and mostly the women provided the care. However, around 17th century, there was something called the poor house or alms house (Hicks, 2015). English settlers introduced this concept to the United States. A poor house or alms house was mainly for poor people; people who didn’t have family member to take care of them or didn’t have enough money to pay someone to take care of them. Those individuals who often lived in poor houses/alms houses were orphans, poor elderly or mentally ill. Poorhouses lasted until the early 20th century. In the 1930s when
