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:
273: An elderly woman stared down a would-be thief after she busted the man prowling around her retirement community.
The 81-year-old was startled by a noise outside her unit.
“I was watching TV and heard a noise so I got up and yelled ‘is anybody there?’,” she said.
“I thought I was imagining things so sat back down but then I saw what looked like a big white rag.”
“So I had another look and he was standing by the wall. If the door had been open, he would have been next to me.”
Her story comes as police warn elderly residents to lock up following a spate of burglaries…