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:
544: A carer who is no longer employed was expected to take care of a client at his home on a daily basis, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Instead, she bought a gallon of vodka for her client and left him alone despite instructions that she was not supposed to purchase alcohol for him…