HOUSTON: Retirement communities and rest 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:
103. Vulnerable elderly skilled nursing home residents slept on dirty mattresses in rooms reeking of urine.
Mops were left in buckets of dirty water, clean laundry dumped near soiled items, while stagnant water overflowed from an outside drain.
The filthy scenes were discovered by health chiefs swooping in an unannounced inspection.