It definitely depends on the nursing home... After my late husband's last back surgery the doctor's were concerned with me hurting my back picking him up because he was 6' tall. I don't know why they were concerned because I had helped him every time before. Anyway, they put him in a care facility for a couple of months. He took his Christmas string quilt with him. It didn't even have his name one it. He got scared one time when they took him to the hospital because we couldn't find it--the nurses had folded it up very neatly and placed it safely in the closet. I did bring all of his things home to wash and dry them, so maybe that made a difference also, but we never had anything disappear(except word search puzzles-big deal). My complaints about the place were the lack of enough nurses for the patients.