CHARLOTTE: 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:
4. The coroner will investigate the death of an elderly woman who was allegedly severely burnt by a bedroom heater at a nursing home.
“The bed has been positioned next to the wall heater and it appears that she may have rolled back during the night and rested on that heater,” said…