A recent article in the New York Times covers the growing use of some high technology in curtailing nursing home abuse: hidden cameras.<\/p>\n
Reporter Jan Hoffman tells the story of 96-year-old Eryetha Mayberry, an Oklahoma City nursing home resident with dementia. Mayberry’s daughter, Doris Racher, noticed that a few of her mother’s belongings had gone missing from her room at the nursing home. She thought it might be another resident with dementia who often wandered into Mayberry’s room.<\/p>\n
Racher bought a tiny hidden camera disguised as an alarm clock and placed it on her mother’s nightstand. No further thefts occurred for some weeks, and Racher nearly forgot about the camera. But she eventually decided to go through the recordings anyway. What she saw shocked her.<\/p>\n
A nursing home aide was seen stuffing latex gloves into Mayberry’s mouth while another teased her, tapping on her head and laughing at her. They hoisted her from her (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent article in the New York Times covers the growing use of some high technology in curtailing nursing home abuse: hidden cameras. Reporter Jan Hoffman tells the story of 96-year-old Eryetha Mayberry, an Oklahoma City nursing home resident with…<\/span><\/p>\n