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:
236: A 99-year-old nursing home resident suffering from dementia was put in a scalding hot bath because her female care assistant was in a “bad mood”, a jury has been told.