Comparing three solutions for senior care: nursing homes, day care, and home care – Which is the best option?
This article helps families understand the advantages and disadvantages of 3 solutions for caring for the elderly. These are currently popular options, so parents can choose the most suitable one.
When the family can no longer take care of the child themselves.
This is when people start looking for solutions:
- No more time
- Unable to keep track
- could not be sustained
👉 And the question arises:
👉 “Which option should I choose?”
3 popular options currently available.
- Nursing home
- Daycare for the elderly
- Home care
Each option has individual strengths and weaknesses
🟥 1. Nursing home
Advantage
- Someone is there to take care of you 24/7.
- has an organizational environment
- Suitable for people who don't have close relatives.
Practical limitations
- Sharing a room with 4–6 people.
- not personalized
- The elderly must adapt to a new environment.
- It's easy to miss home and miss your children.
Expense
👉 20 – 60 million VND/month
(may be higher if cared for individually)
Suitable when:
- No one to take care of her.
- accept a collective environment
🟨 2. Daycare for the elderly
Model
- daytime in the city center
- going home in the evening
Advantage
- flexible
- not to stay
Limit
- Evening care is still needed.
- have to travel every day
- Not suitable for severely ill patients.
Expense
👉 500 – 800k/day (8 hours)
(excluding transportation costs)
Suitable when:
- healthy people
- Need to communicate during the day.
🟩 3. Home Care (SAN)
The biggest advantage
👉 Do not change the living environment
- At home
- familiar routines
- close to family
Actual value
- personalized care
- flexible by the hour
- Possible combinations:
- take him to the doctor.
- hospital care
- follow-up visit
Expense
👉 40k – 70k/hour
(reduces with long-term care)
Suitable when:
- I want to keep my parents at home.
- Flexibility is needed.
- Needs close monitoring
If you're undecided between these three options, you might consider SAN – senior care app, the patient.
SAN is not just home care, and also:
- take him to the doctor.
- hospital care
- support for follow-up appointments
👉 A more flexible solution than having to choose "to stay or not to stay"
📞 Hotline: 1900.0666.88
⚖️ Quick comparison
🧠 The most important thing
There is no single "best" option.
Only:
👉 The most suitable for your family
Common mistakes
- select by price
- Choose according to what others say
- without considering the feelings of the elderly.
👉 This is why many people have to change their solution later.
Why are trends changing?
More and more families are choosing:
👉 Home care + flexibility
Because:
- I don't want to be away from my parents.
- I don't want to change my environment.
- want to control quality
You don't have to choose a "hard" solution.
You can choose one way:
👉 Flexible, adapting to each stage
Download SAN - application caring for the elderly, patients
👉 Or call our Hotline: 1900.0666.88 for personalized advice.
