CHICAGO: 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:
196. A skilled nursing home where an elderly resident complained about being locked up ‘like a prisoner’ and inspectors found some rooms to be ‘dirty’, ‘cold’, and ‘dimly-lit’ has been ordered to improve.