Has anyone used a security camera in the home to keep an eye on their loved one? I work full time and would love to continue and my husband is not quite at the point he needs someone with him all the time. He tends to sleep in his recliner and watches a lot of TV. He will walk to the garage with the dog, go watch the chickens, etc but seems to only want to sit and watch TV most of the time, or sleep in his recliner. I was thinking of getting a security camera that has a two way talk and can rotate. I have a beam across our family/living room where I would be able to see the kitchen, his recliner, the front door and also the hallway leading to the back bedrooms. Hopefully this would allow me to keep an eye on him without having someone there all day. My neighbor would come down a couple times a day to check on him. I know the time will be here before I know it where I will have to either be there full time or have someone else there, but for now I was thinking of trying this. Has anyone had any experience with this type of observation, or am I dreaming it would even be a feasible option?
Hi Waning Moon, this is a good place to answer your other question. My wife showed signs around 52 years old or so. When it became clear she had something, our geriatric specialist told me for EOAD her common experience was 8-12 years from the time they got the disease. That's hard to pinpoint. Dianne went about the 12 years from the time I can place the first quirks in her.
I don't know of any experience with security cameras but the idea seems sound to me depending on the cost and effort.
It might work sort of like a baby cam to keep an eye on the babysitter. The only problem I can see with two way talk: if he is not familiar with it, it might scare him and/or cause panic. If you can afford it, probably would not hurt to try it.
As a stop gap, before investing money in a system, you might be able to try what I did while living in retirement home: while my wife was asleep in bed, and I needed to get out of the apartment to do something (usually elsewhere in the building), I propped up her smart phone on the dresser and ran an app that would take a photo of her every three minutes (the interval was adjustable) and send them to me via email. I'd pull out my own phone, look through the photos, and see if I needed to head back.
Keep in mind that internet security cameras are extremely insecure, assume that everyone in the world is watching your home. Criminals are now using people's security cameras against them, they use them to confirm that no one is home.
Unfortunately your concern about your husband is a sign that he shouldn't be left alone anymore.
I used and still use a baby cam/monitor in my husband's bedroom to keep an eye on him. It''s 2 way so you can hear him or talk to him. I initially got it to monitor him because he was always trying to escape from the house. It has 2 video cameras which can run on batteries or be plugged in and they have sound included in the unit. There's a parental unit which is about a 5" monitor which also monitor room temp in addition to sound. For an investment which was less than $200.00 it has served us very well for 3 years.
Unfortunately I agree with Paulc, your husband should probably not be left unsupervised anymore. Hopefully you've taken away his keys and drivers license....I didn't and learned the hard way; he got lost for 16 hours and drove 4 states away. Thank god there was no tragedy.
I heard a story the other day about pre-Internet baby monitors. This person just got a radio band monitor and was fooling around and picked up a couple arguing. He recognized who they were and they lived 7 houses from him. He discovered were they were hiding $100,000 worth of jewels during their 2 week vacation (they were jewelers, a delivery came in and the sister with the key to the safe already left for vacation).
I'm thinking you will need an internet based nanny cam or baby monitor so you can monitor him remotely through your phone, tablet or PC. ours is wireless and works in the house but I doubt it would work with the parental monitor a distance away. I'm sure you can do a google search to find some that are affordable.