SAN JOSE: 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:
173. Elderly residents in sheltered housing were evacuated as police, fire and ambulance crews attended a fire.
There were no initial reports of injuries or anyone trapped.