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:
283: A paramedic has been cleared of making lewd remarks to an elderly patient.
He was said to have made a series of inappropriate comments in front of a shocked skilled nursing home worker.
But a tribunal ruled there was insufficient evidence to support the allegation after a witness statement from the woman was deemed inadmissible…