Combatting Elder Abuse in Long-Term Care: Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Monitoring
One possible mechanism for combating elder abuse in long-term care settings is the use of electronic monitoring through video surveillance.

One possible mechanism for combating elder abuse in long-term care settings is the use of electronic monitoring through video surveillance.
The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between.
There are a series of practical reforms that could readily improve the quality of nursing home care.
Telehealth may be the missing key needed to shift the pendulum to providing sustainable, affordable, high-quality, and safe long-term care in the home.
By Allison Hoffman [Cross-posted from Health Affairs Blog] The 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid offers an opportunity to reflect on how U.S. social policy has conceived of the problem of long-term care. Social insurance programs aim to create greater security—typically financial security—for American families (See Note 1). Programs for long-term care, however, have had mixed…