To obtain an image pickup device for people under care, which can inform people of photographing the people in advance through the operation of a nursing person thereby properly protecting the privacy of the people.

The image pickup device for people under care is provided with a timer circuit 7. The timer circuit outputs a monitor instruction signal to a warning generating section 2 as a photographing prediction signal when the image pickup device for people receives the monitor instruction signal outputted from a monitor through the operation of the monitor by a nursing person. The timer circuit outputs the monitor instruction signal to a camera section 3 as a photographing start signal with a lapse of a prescribed tie after the output of the photographing prediction signal.