Nursing Homes: Elder Abuse On The Rise-One Way To Protect Your Parents

This will not come as a surprise to anybody but baby boomers are reaching retirement age so rapidly that supporting social programs cannot possibly keep up. A baby boomer reaches age 65 every 10 seconds. Seniors over the age of 65 will soon be a bigger proportion of the population than those under 65. That’s a scary statistic!

This also places stress on nursing homes and long-term care facilities with a double whammy. Not only is there a shortage of beds for the patients but there’s also a shortage of qualified staff to care for them. These shortages lead to all kinds of shortcuts and abuses. The home healthcare industry is booming as a result of those shortages. They don’t have enough people either so there are shortcuts in the hiring process there also.

Elder abuse can be manifested in many ways-from the withholding of necessary medications to verbal and physical abuse. Even psychological abuse is present. A study not long ago showed that 60% of all nursing homes had some kind of elder abuse and that 90% of all healthcare facilities employed a convicted felon-some even more than one.

And that kind of abuse happens in regulated industries of nursing homes. Can you imagine what goes on in home healthcare?

Alzheimer patients or dementia patients may be unable to verbalize what is going on in either their care facility or at home. That leads people to believe that they can get away with just about anything. That’s why some states have legalized the use of hidden cameras and spy cameras in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. Texas was the first. That way the adult children of patients can keep an eye on what’s going on. And to be honest, it’s about the only way that elder abuse can be caught.

Hidden cameras or spy cameras are hidden inside objects that are very common and will fit into just about any setting so no one would suspect they are being recorded. As you can see Covert Spy Cameras can look like just about anything you can imagine. The most effective ones have DVR’s built right in and use an SD card to record color images for easy recording and playback.

Almost all of the hidden cameras and spy cameras feature motion activated recording to eliminate dead recording time. This allows you to get longer effective recording times.

A hidden camera or spy camera is one way, maybe the only way, to protect your parents from elder abuse.

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Elder Abuse Caught On Hidden Camera

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In April and May of 2011 a caregiver in a nursing home was caught mistreating a patient not once but twice. It was caught with a hidden camera that was placed inside an air purifier. Elder abuse is very common in nursing homes unfortunately. You can read the whole story HERE.

The story brings to attention the many and varied uses of hidden cameras and the value that they have. Catching elder abuse in a nursing home or home healthcare situation is just one use. Businesses use them to catch employees stealing. Homeowners use them to catch burglars breaking into their homes. Parents use them to catch babysitters or nannies mistreating their small children. Spouses use them to catch their partners cheating on them.

I guess when you get right down to it, it doesn’t matter how you use your Spy Camera. The ones I like the most are the Self-contained Cameras that have a DVR inside them. They make recording and playback a snap. So easy I can do it.

Feedback on these posts is appreciated. Have your parents been victims of elder abuse? Please share your experience. We want to hear your thoughts.

The Home Security Superstore is one of the oldest and largest independent distributors of high quality home security, surveillance, spy, self-defense, survival and safety products. We carry a wide range of self-defense products including tasers, stun guns, pepper sprays and other nonlethal weapons that can save your life in the event of an attack.

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Elder Care: Elder Abuse-What It Is And How To Catch It

Maybe you’ve seen the statistics lately indicating that a baby boomer reaches retirement age every ten seconds. Those over 65 years of age will soon outnumber the less than 65 age group. These statistics give an indication of the pressure that is put on Social Security and on nursing homes, long-term care facilities and other facilities needed to take care of seniors in their final days.

And it isn’t just the facilities that are in short supply. There is a shortage of nurses, nursing assistants and other healthcare workers who work in this specialized field.

The shortage is so bad for qualified personnel that a recent study showed that 90% of healthcare facilities had at least one convicted felon. Schools that train nursing personnel are booming in enrollment. There was an ad the other day that touted you can get a nursing certificate in as little as two weeks.

The point is, with the increased demand that seniors are putting on the system, the system is not doing a good job at keeping up in terms of facilities and personnel to care for them.

This leads to all kinds of elder abuse which can be manifested in physical, verbal and even psychological ways. A congressional study revealed that 60% of nursing homes had some kind of elder abuse. Many people are turning to alternatives to nursing homes and long-term care facilities such as home healthcare.

There is an absolute boom in home healthcare for senior citizens. That takes care of one of the problems-the facility-but not the other of qualified staff. If you use this alternative, you have to be especially careful because the person that is going to be taking care of your mom or dad in their house or yours is essentially a complete stranger. The vetting of personnel often goes by the wayside, which leaves the hiring of unqualified personnel with questionable backgrounds. This only exacerbates the problem of elder abuse.

So what can you do to help prevent or catch elder abuse? If you suspect it is happening with your parents, a hidden camera inside their room either in a nursing home, long-term care facility or especially in a home healthcare situation is a very viable solution. A hidden camera can be inside any common object that people are used to seeing in a home, office or business situation.

One of the most effective is the Projection Display Clock. It has a built-in DVR that records to an SD card. No one would ever suspect that an AM/FM radio is recording everything that’s going on with the motion activation feature. It is just one example of many of the hidden cameras that can be used to document elder abuse.

It provides another set of eyes on a very sensitive issue. You can’t be there all the time, so a hidden camera can provide documentation in an elder abuse situation or help document wrongdoing on the part of the home health caregiver.

Texas was the first state that authorized the use of a hidden camera to help catch and prevent elder abuse.

Be proactive in protecting your parents from elder abuse. A hidden camera is the best way to document an otherwise difficult crime to prove.

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Elder Abuse-Best Way To Catch It

A baby boomer reaches retirement age every 10 seconds. Citizens over the age 65 will soon outnumber those under 65. This puts added stress on already cramped long-term care facilities and nursing homes. This has led to a new growth industry of private homes that rent out rooms to seniors. And more and more seniors are staying in their own home in their final days. But they require home healthcare

There’s a shortage of qualified employees to work in home healthcare and in long-term care facilities.

Is it any wonder then that in a recent study it showed nine out of 10 health care facilities have one or more convicted felons and that 60% of those places had two or more employees with criminal records?

An amazing statistic is that 60% of all nursing homes revealed some kind of elder abuse. Where are your parents going to be in their final days? In a nursing home, a long-term care facility, home healthcare? A few years ago Texas became the first state to authorize the use of surveillance cameras in rooms to help cure the growing elder abuse problem.

A hidden spy camera like the Tissue Box Spy Camera placed in a room in a nursing home or home healthcare setting can document elder abuse like no other piece of equipment.

Why take a chance when a Covert Spy Camera can be of so much assistance.

Feedback on these posts is welcomed. Have you used spy camera in a nursing home or home health care setting to protect your mom or dad? Please share your experience. We want to hear your thoughts.

The Home Security Superstore is one of the oldest and largest independent distributors of high quality home security, surveillance, spy, self-defense, survival and safety products. We carry a wide range of self-defense products including Tasers, stun guns, pepper sprays and other non-lethal weapons that can save your life in the event of an attack.

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