PHOENIX: 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:
188. A man has faced court over a fight in a rest home that left an 88-year-old dementia patient dead.
He twice assaulted the victim in September 2013, causing a fatal brain bleed.
He has pleaded guilty to intentionally causing serious injury.