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:
233: Staff at a skilled nursing home had to go out and buy food for its residents themselves after the skilled nursing home ran out.
The failing was among a number of criticisms made by regulators…