I want to purchase some type of camera system for monitoring my mom. She is currently in a nursing home.
Whenever we go out, sometimes she wants to stay and sit alone in say, a Chick-fil-A or similar place. Last time she wanted to do this, I was nervous because she is in a wheelchair and I don't like to leave her alone in public (she had a stroke last year so is immobile on her left side but is 'all there' cognitively), but I do want to give her that alone time she craves as being around all of the noise and people in the nursing home has been having an impact on her already low state of mental health.
Since she is relatively safe in a Chick-fil-A, I let her be during the last visit. She ended up staying there for 4 hours (!). As a result, I checked in on her 4 or 5 times, which means I basically ran errands very close to the Chick-Fil-A all day long but would keep going back to her to make sure she was ok and whether she wanted to leave or not.
So. That leads me to the topic at hand. I would like to get my mom some type of discreet, wearable camera. Something that I could look at 'live' (audio and video) that would show me what's going on in her surroundings at any given point in time. That way, if something happened to her in between my check ups on her whenever I take her out, I would be aware as I could check it every 2-5 minutes, etc.
Any ideas?
I get that Psalm, I'm sure you're trying to make mom happy, it's just not safe IMO. Too many bad people in the world. Hire an aide for a few hours to keep an eye on her.
And I'm sure Chick-Fil-A doesn't want to be responsible for a disabled person either as that is not their job. They are not there to babysit their clientele.
If you feel you must take your mom out of the nursing home, just bring her to your house and let her sit and relax there where she will be safe.
And you can buy some inexpensive Blink or the like security cameras that you can check on her with your phone if you have to run out to do some errands.
Otherwise you may just want to quit taking her out of the nursing facility, and only take her outside of the facility(weather permitting and on the grounds of)and let her sit outside and enjoy the day, until you have to leave.
As for the camera, you would need to check with the nursing home to see if a wearable camera is allowed. I doubt it, as it would violate the privacy of the other residents in the facility, HIPAA Privacy Rule.