CHICAGO: 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:
208. A care worker could be struck off after she allegedly groped a colleague’s bottom and told him she “slept naked”.
The care worker told her workmate that she “assisted the night shift without a bra on” while looking suggestively at her breasts, it has also been claimed.
She faces a total of 15 charges at a hearing.