PHILADELPHIA: 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:
243. A mother has been given a suspended sentence for her part in a scam of a 93-year-old woman who is almost completely blind.
She was given a four month sentence suspended for one year after she cashed a cheque which had been scammed from her elderly victim.