SEATTLE: 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:
49. A skilled nursing home left elderly residents under its care naked and exposed to public view on a balcony.
Photos show wheelchair-bound residents pushed onto a terrace, where their trousers were removed so that they could relieve themselves, after which they were stripped naked before getting bathed.
Several females were seen attempting to cover their naked bodies with their hands, with staff sometimes forcefully removing their clothing.
The terrace is in clear view of the residential buildings that surround the skilled nursing home.