LOS ANGELES: 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:
107. A severely disabled patient in a skilled nursing home was verbally and physically abused over a period of more than two years.
The two care workers who hit the vulnerable woman and repeatedly shouted abuse at her escaped going to jail for their behaviour.