LOS ANGELES: 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:
364: A paralysed man who could only communicate by clicking his tongue died when a nurse failed to notice that his ventilation machine had become unplugged – and then altered his records to cover her mistake…