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:
200. A care worker who swore at and assaulted a 79-year-old woman suffering from dementia has been jailed for four months.
She had been about to finish her shift when she was asked to help a colleague change the victim who is doubly incontinent.
Her response was “For f**** sake I am sick of this place”.
While the woman was being hoisted on to a bed the accused had pressed down on her shoulder impatiently.
Afterwards she roughly dragged off the woman’s nightie and threw a clean one that landed on her knees.
Sometime later she wanted the woman, whose legs were shaking, to stand at the sink saying “Stand up you thick f*****.“