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.
1077: A 70-year-old woman was ordered Tuesday to serve nine years in prison for stealing more than $240,000 from a woman she’d befriended in a nursing home.