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:
214. A grieving grandson says he “felt sick” after seeing a photo which he believes shows a nursing home manager wearing his dead grandmother’s glasses.
The image shows the manager wearing “old granny tights” on her head and a pair of “special” glasses.