A woman whose husband died in a nursing home from neglect is pushing her state legislature to approve cameras in rooms as a protective measure.
Back in 2010, as she walked up to her husband's nursing home room door, she could tell something was not right. “I could smell the stench of feces coming through the door,” she said. When she opened the door, her husband was slumped in his wheelchair, unconscious and the room was very hot. Aides told her that her bed and chair bound husband had gotten out of bed in the middle of the night, closed the window and turned off the air conditioner. Her husband died soon after the incident. She reported it to the state but nothing happened. Now she is pushing for a change that she feels might have protected her husband, a camera in his room.
“He would have had a witness,” she said. “Then there would have been some accountability.”
Two bills have been introduced in that state's legislature allowing cameras in nursing home rooms. For more, read the story.
