CHICAGO: 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:
440: A care assistant has admitted pulling an elderly dementia patient by his ear and knocking him to the floor. The care assistant, who has been a carer for 20 years, admitted ill treating a person who lacked mental capacity.