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:
220: A highly critical review of an investigation into alleged abuse at a skilled nursing home says one of the owners should have been prosecuted.
The owner, whose trial was ended when he was injured following a burglary, “should have and could have been prosecuted”.
The review found those providing care were “impervious to the needs of older people.”…