PORTLAND: 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:
9. A carer at an old peoples home was allegedly caught half-naked in an elderly patient’s bed, police have said.
The carer, 27, is accused of sexually abusing the 76-year-old woman who had “limited mental faculties” after another member of staff walked in…