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.
913: A man allegedly targeted elderly people and stole from their homes — including one incident in which the victim was aged 95.
And he was allegedly inside various other sheltered housing homes with the intent to steal from within.