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:
201. A nursing home caregiver who failed to attach a resident to a ventilator in 2012, which led to the woman’s death, was found guilty today of criminally negligent homicide, a crime punishable by up to 4 years in prison.