CHARLOTTE: 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:
140. Describing an ex-skilled nursing home executive director convicted of breaking into tenants’ apartments and stealing their prescription drugs a “danger to the community”, a judge sentenced a woman to one to 15 years in prison for violating terms of her probationary sentence.