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.
613: An elderly man was rescued from a broken down lift. Fire crews were called to a sheltered housing complex. The 75-year-old man was in the lift when it stopped working and had become distressed.