PHILADELPHIA: 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:
202. A former skilled nursing home worker could spend up to a year behind bars for abusing a patient.
A judge sentenced the nursing home worker to three to 12 months behind bars.