Many elderly people are no longer looked after by their families but are put in care homes or
nursing homes.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?
It is increasingly common for families to send their elderly relatives to live in nursing homes, rather
than take care of them at home. This essay will highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks that
have resulted from this switch.
Looking firstly at the positives, a significant advantage is that care homes are often much better
equipped to deal with the demands of elderly people than family homes. For example, nursing
homes do not usually have stairs, and for those which do, stairlifts or elevators need to be
installed. This means that the typical mobility problems which tend to appear among geriatrics are
not exacerbated. Not only this, but the staff who work in nursing homes have been professionally
trained to manage the needs of the elderly. It is rare for family members to possess these skills.
However, care homes for the elderly also present some disadvantages, the most obvious of which
is the lack of loved ones around. Although it is possible for friends and relatives to visit nursing
home residents, these visits can be infrequent, and loneliness is often the consequence. To make
matters worse, it has been shown that those who are lonely are at greater risk of becoming
depressed and having their immune system weakened. Furthermore, care home residents are
often surrounded by illness and death. Such an environment is likely to curtail happiness and
trigger severe depression.
In conclusion, despite the benefits of specially-trained staff and well-equipped facilities that nursing
homes can offer the elderly, the drawbacks of loneliness and its concomitant depression should
also be taken into consideration.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 59, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...them at home. This essay will highlight some of the benefits and drawbacks that have resul...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, so, well, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1412.0 1615.20841683 87% => OK
No of words: 264.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34848484848 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.865759995 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.602272727273 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 435.6 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.9775749515 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.615384615 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3076923077 20.7667163134 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.30769230769 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.38176352705 434% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208585072591 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740907499514 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718912455228 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0592257355503 0.151304729494 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0574079821834 0.056905535591 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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