HOUSTON: 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:
286: A carer has been given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to two charges of assaulting an 87-year-old dementia patient at a skilled nursing home.
He was caught after the victim’s daughter installed a hidden camera in her father’s room.
He was given a 15 weeks suspended sentence for each of the common assaults and 200 hours community service.