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:
379: A skilled nursing home deputy manager tried to take money belonging to an elderly resident, a tribunal heard.
The carer obtained three signed cheques made out to her personally by the man, who had failing eyesight and has since died.
She paid in the cheques but they were stopped by the man’s bank and police alerted.