SAN FRANCISCO: 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.
612: A patient in a skilled nursing home had his “human rights breached” through abusive practices, an inspection has found.
Staff failed to protect a resident and instead subjected him to “psychological and organisational abuse”.