My mother is in memory care because they said she needed it because ‘one’ night she was out looking for her car at the time she was living in assisted so for her safety we moved her to Memory Care and she is the only one that is verbal and coherent in Memory Care. She has a lovely room one bedroom living room, a very nice kitchen and nicely furnished, but since she prefers to spend a lot of her time in her room because she cannot converse with anyone, we do supply her with food and snacks in her refrigerator and cupboards! We have noticed lately that she goes through a half a gallon of lemonade a day and also the snacks that we provide. She never did this when she was living in assisted living, she would drink a 1 ounce shot of lemonade at night before she went to bed because it said it cleared her throat. She’s very meticulous to a fault and today we found used drinking glasses with residue from the lemonade sitting on the floor across the room. And she’s going through her snacks as though the rabbits are eating them! When I asked her today, if someone is having a break with her, which is wonderful she said I’m not saying anything that would get me in trouble. I would like to put in a nanny cam because she does spend a long time for breakfast and lunch and dinner down at the dining room and sometimes up to two hours if they’re slow getting the meals out! Her room is at the end of the hallway where no one frequents? If someone is spending time with her, that’s wonderful, but I don’t expect them to be freely eating her snacks and drinks and for a while she told me she marked on the bottles because she thought somebody was drinking them. She’s very witty alert just has trouble with remembering what day it is or what year it is but can tell you who’s the president or the upcoming president she can make jokes out of just sentences that we speak. She certainly is ‘not if maybe only the early stages of dementia’. I truly don’t think she’s being abused, but she has limited funds, and I would like to supply her with as many pleasantries as she can afford, but I do not want to feed the help. I would like to put up a nanny cam.
But now regarding the cameras, you would have to get the ok from the facility she is in as some facilities do allow them and some do not.
My cousin's wife did this in her mother's memory care room in Connecticut. It worked well to ease her mind that her Mom was okay while she was at work.
I don't know whether a hidden camera would be allowed if found.