HOUSTON: Retirement communities and rest 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:
415:A greedy skilled nursing home worker who plundered the bank accounts of vulnerable residents with learning difficulties has been jailed.
She was entrusted, as a team leader, to withdraw cash on the victims’ behalf.
But over a nine month period she “systematically” milked her clients accounts.