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:
224: A nurse who was working at an “inadequate” care home will this week appear before a misconduct tribunal following allegations she gave incorrect doses of medicine to an elderly resident.
She administered “incorrect” quantities of epilepsy drug Pregabalin to a patient over three days while working at a skilled nursing home.