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:
422: A Skilled nursing home worker has admitted assaulting a female resident of the facility at which he was employed. He is understood to have been suspended by his employers as soon as the alarm was raised.