AUSTIN: 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:
110. A care company is under scrutiny after it left a 92-year-old woman alone on the floor when she fell.
The residential skilled nursing home is accused of ordering a carer to leave the resident to go to another call before an ambulance or relative arrived.