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:
131. A cruel carer has been convicted of repeatedly hitting an elderly dementia sufferer and banging him on the head with a metal stand.
The carer branded the 86-year-old a “nasty old man” and told a fellow worker she was glad he was deaf because he couldn’t hear her talking about him.