MIAMI: 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:
265: An estate administrator has filed suit against a skilled nursing care facility.
The suit states that the defendant’s employees failed to provide supervision, evaluation, and handling of the patient, failed to adequately assess and document her condition, and failed to safely transfer her from a bed to a wheelchair.