LOS ANGELES: 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.
780: Records show last February at a nursing home, video was posted to Snapchat by an employee.
In the case, a nursing assistant taught and videotaped two dementia patients how to sing “I love coco,” a rap song reference to cocaine. After the investigation, she was terminated.