In human relations, "getting home" is to get to have sex with the other person.
(as an analogy of baseball, the different steps from kissing to actually having sex, have been compared to getting 1st (kissing),2nd (fondling) 3rd (oral sex) base, and finally "getting home")
Dank depressing urine soaked facility where most people get exiled to in the last years of their life, usually when they become a burden upon family. Like a prison for the elderly.
Grandpa kept forgetting to shut off the stove, and kept starting fires, so dad had to put him in a home.