HOUSTON: 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:
449: A man aged in his 70s has died after a fire at a block of flats. The complex is managed by a housing trust. The majority of them are retirement and sheltered accommodation for the elderly. A fire service spokesman said the blaze was ‘severe’.