{"id":25487,"date":"2025-04-07T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25487"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:24:46","slug":"why-cameras-are-popping-up-in-eldercare-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25487","title":{"rendered":"Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roughly 20 states now have laws permitting families to place cameras in the rooms of loved ones. Facility operators are often opposed.<\/p>\n

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The assisted-living facility in Edina, Minn., where Jean H. Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. \u201cBut then you start uncovering things,\u201d Ms. Peters said.<\/p>\n

Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her in mid-morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t being toileted, so her pants would be soaked,\u201d said Ms. Peters, 69, a retired nurse-practitioner in Bloomington, Minn. \u201cThey didn\u2019t give her water. They didn\u2019t get her up for meals.\u201d She dwindled to 94 pounds.<\/p>\n

Most ominously, Ms. Peters said, \u201cwe noticed bruises on her arm that we couldn\u2019t account for.\u201d Complaints to administrators \u2014 in person, by phone and by email \u2014 brought \u201ctons of excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So Ms. Peters bought an inexpensive camera at Best Buy. She and her sisters installed it atop the refrigerator in her mother\u2019s apartment, worrying that the facility might evict her if the staff noticed it.<\/p>\n

Monitoring from an app on their phones, the family saw Ms. Hourigan going hours without being changed. They saw and heard an aide loudly berating her and handling her roughly as she helped her dress.<\/p>\n

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Roughly 20 states now have laws permitting families to place cameras in the rooms of loved ones. Facility operators are often opposed.The assisted-living facility in Edina, Minn., where Jean H. Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. \u201cBut then you start uncovering things,\u201d Ms. Peters said.Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her in mid-morning.\u201cShe wasn\u2019t being toileted, so her pants would be soaked,\u201d said Ms. Peters, 69, a retired nurse-practitioner in Bloomington, Minn. \u201cThey didn\u2019t give her water. They didn\u2019t get her up for meals.\u201d She dwindled to 94 pounds.Most ominously, Ms. Peters said, \u201cwe noticed bruises on her arm that we couldn\u2019t account for.\u201d Complaints to administrators \u2014 in person, by phone and by email \u2014 brought \u201ctons of excuses.\u201dSo Ms. Peters bought an inexpensive camera at Best Buy. She and her sisters installed it atop the refrigerator in her mother\u2019s apartment, worrying that the facility might evict her if the staff noticed it.Monitoring from an app on their phones, the family saw Ms. Hourigan going hours without being changed. They saw and heard an aide loudly berating her and handling her roughly as she helped her dress.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25489,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25490,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions\/25490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}