SAN FRANCISCO: 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:
255. Some elderly people in a nursing home have been left for a month or more without a shower, inspectors have revealed.
Inspectors said that if residents did not take up the offer of a bath or a shower at the time or there were too few staff on a particular day, some could go for a month or more without adequate personal hygiene.