ALBUQUERQUE: 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:
25. A care assistant has been cleared of slapping a deaf, brain damaged war veteran while giving him a bed bath at an under-staffed skilled nursing home.