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:
242. Another staff member in a rest home for the intellectually disabled has been suspended and an agency worker has been let go following concerns about poor care practices.
Last month six staff members who worked at the home were charged with assault arising out of alleged incidents in November last year.