MEMPHIS: 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:
45. A carer has been convicted on four counts of common assault only two years after the same home was investigated for elder abuse when staff were secretly filmed slapping, manhandling and jeering at residents.