Nursing Home Elder Abuse With a Spy Camera - The Best Prevention
Nursing Home Elder Abuse With a Spy Camera - The Best Prevention
Seniors are the fastest growing segment of our population and as they get older the question of how they spend their final days looms large.
With more and more baby boomers reaching retirement age, the stress and strain put on assisted living facilities and long term care homes is growing every day. The supply of qualified people to staff these facilities is not keeping up. One of the reasons is because the healthcare industry is in such a shortfall of people that their wages are much much higher.
What happens then is assisted living facilities are almost forced to make compromises in hiring people. Is an unqualified and under trained employee in a nursing home good enough for your parents? I don't think so.
And that's only half the problem. Not everyone can afford a home like that. Home health care givers are even less qualified. Abuse and theft are very common. Kind of a scary thought!
One out of six nursing homes or assisted living facilities report some kind of elder abuse. That can come in many forms-physical, verbal or psychological. Nursing home elder abuse is particularly widespread in nursing homes or assisted living facilities that specialize in Alzheimer's disease.
How can you best prevent this elder abuse? The best way is with a spy camera.
The newest hidden cameras have a camera and DVR hidden inside the most common objects like alarm clocks and car key fobs. Some models even have a microphone-so called "body worn" models. o