PHILADELPHIA: 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:
124: A woman is suing a medical center claiming it failed to properly care for her now deceased mother. A skilled nursing home employee purportedly attempted to transfer the plaintiff’s mother from her bed to her wheelchair by using a lift and neglected to wait for a second person to arrive to help. Furthermore, the nursing assistant is alleged to have neglected to secure the strap on the lift correctly, which allegedly caused the plaintiff’s mother to be dropped midair out of the lift.