HOUSTON: 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:
219: Skilled nursing home bosses have served court papers on a helpless dementia patient after she fell behind on her payments.
She cannot speak, walk or feed herself – and does not even recognise her family – yet she was handed the writ as she lay bedridden.
The frail great-grandmother built up the debts after her husband died.
And her furious daughter branded the legal action, by the home’s owners, “disgusting”…