Also, let's not forget that the cat's home isn't the entire nursing facility. According to this article, "Oscar's sole domain is the locked dementia ward" of the center, "home to 41 patients in the final stages of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, a stroke, and other mentally debilitating diseases." That's final stages, folks, so the probability that any bed Oscar curls up on might be someone's deathbed is pretty high to begin with.