What do you think about Atty General’s plan for legislation to allow video & audio recording devices to be placed in nursing home rooms to monitor patients?

This proposed legislation sounds great to me; that Illinois would become the sixth state to allow monitoring devices to be installed in nursing home patient’s rooms to help protect them.  Mydear 89 year old mother is currently in a nursing home in Galesburg; she receives good care, but she has fallen a couple of timesas she sometimes forgets she can no longer walk.  If a patient turns on their call light and aides take too long to respond, hopefully someone at the nurses station can scan a screen of those rooms to see if someone has fallen or appears to need immediate help.  Many nursing homes are definitely understaffed.  I don’t understand the privacy issue; these folks lie around all day, reading if they still can, or sitting in their wheelchairs.  Some can walk around and visit.  Bathrooms would still be private.  And if residents or their families decide and pay for the equipment where’s the problem?  Nursing homes are worried about retaining quality staff if they have such monitors?  Why would someone doing their job well have such a concern?  I also think most good cops should welcome a uniform camera to record interactions.  Even good care can be improved upon, and there are probably many nursing homes in the state where such devices are very necessary!