JACKSONVILLE: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers. But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
36. Investigators are looking into possible abuse at a skilled nursing home.
Police began looking after they were contacted by the family of a 77-year-old. She had been taken to the hospital with a three inch gash in her head that required staples and a bed sore “to the bone”.
She subsequently died.