NEW YORK: 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:
209. A coroner has criticized care staff for failings which allowed a pensioner to repeatedly fall and eventually die of her injuries.
The coroner also questioned the effectiveness of a new staff training regime and said there was still work to be done to improve record keeping and decision making.
The coroner said the home’s management should have met with other agencies to look into why she had suffered a series of eight incidents in three months, the last of which led to a brain injury and her death…