I frequently go to a caregiver's forum and this member there told how her elderly father who was in a nursing home was given the flu shot without her being informed first. Well, her father had the same thing. He couldn't move his body anymore and started to deteriorate rapidly.
In another forum I went to, someone wrote:
"I used to work in a private nursing home, we would not give flu shots because the one time we did, it made everyone sick and three people died. All other years ( no shots ) only a couple of people would get the flu and no one died from it. We heard the same story from other elder care faculties. I would not want to be old in a state or federal institution."