PORTLAND: 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:
146. Owners of three residential skilled nursing homes for seniors and the disabled will pay more than $176,000 in back wages and damages to a dozen live-in workers who were denied minimum wages and overtime during a two-year period.