More about leaving houses to children--if you want to do that then you have to have enough resources to pay for your care up until death, or be lucky enough to die before you need to go into a home for care.
Then there is the problem of it being hard to inherit a part of a house. That is why I did not fight to get the house my mom wanted to leave to me, although it caused immense grief to have it leave the family. But the idea of my brothers being able to come visit and sit around my house and feel it was part theirs was so abhorrent. On the other hand, last night I dreamed I called the new owner and asked to buy it back, and this morning woke up and said to my husband maybe that is what I should do.. .