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:
177. Two carers have admitted neglecting an elderly resident at a skilled nursing home, who later died. The 85-year-old resident suffered a head injury when she fell from a hoist as her carers put her to bed.
Instead of telling the truth, the pair said she had sustained the injury by knocking her head on a headboard. They also delayed calling an ambulance. She was taken to a hospital the same evening and died 23 days later.