SAN DIEGO: 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:
133. It will take years to pay back the very elderly victims of a skilled nursing home caregiver who stole jewelry from frail and vulnerable residents.
The judge thought the thefts were opportunistic rather than driven by “extreme poverty”.