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:
222: A healthcare provider has paid an undisclosed settlement to a special needs client for assigning him an unqualified and unskilled carer.
Instead of helping his Hindi-speaking client make friends, as he was supposed to, the employee would take the man to his home and just watch television, according to a Human Rights Review Tribunal decision.
At times he would show his client films that were deemed inappropriate for his “mental capacity and comprehension”.
He also pinched and hit his client and would leave the special needs man unattended while he went fishing, the decision said.