PHILADELPHIA: 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:
195. The family of a retired lecturer who killed his dementia-stricken wife and then himself said yesterday that the care system had failed the couple.
The man smothered his wife of 58 years, after residential home bosses decided they could not cope with her.
They ferried the 80-year-old back to her farmhouse and bundled her “like a farm animal” through his front door only hours after the husband had reluctantly sent her into care.