BOSTON: 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:
329: Vulnerable adults have been so let down, their skilled nursing home has been placed in special measures.
The home was found not to have enough staff on duty at night, to be failing to properly manage its medicines and to have gaps in its risk assessments.
The most serious complaint relates to allegations of abuse…