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.
694: A deputy skilled nursing home manager has admitted stealing from a vulnerable resident.
The victim was a 61-year-old vulnerable woman with reduced mental capacity, who was able to manage her finances with the help of staff at the skilled nursing home…