PHILADELPHIA: 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:
367: The owners of a skilled nursing home and an employee failed to seek urgent medical help for a 99-year-old resident who had scalded her legs in a bath.