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:
227: A man is on trial charged with multiple counts of robbing elderly women in their retirement homes.
On June 8, an 81-year-old woman was at home in her unit at a retirement community when a man came to her door claiming to be a police officer. He asked to use the toilet and returned after some time and left straight away. The woman later found the contents of her bag dumped.