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:
210. An 86-year-old man has decided to spend his summer living in the small two-man tent he has set up in the garden of the old people’s home where he lives.
He had the idea after being seduced by an advert for a tent he saw on television. He then jumped on his cycle and biked to buy it.