Five nursing homes in Adelaide will be used to trial cameras to help protect vulnerable residents.
The federal government will spend $500,000 on the 12-month trial, which will run across five state government facilities starting during the second
half of 2019. The trial comes in the wake of the Oakden nursing home scandal in Adelaide, where elderly dementia patients were abused and over-medicated.
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