SEATTLE: 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:
13. A respected nurse has been given a suspended prison sentence for theft and fraud at the skilled nursing home where he worked.
He fleeced two residents and a colleague after his finances hit the rocks…