EL PASO: 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:
247. One in 10 health and social care workers have witnessed a colleague declare belief in a ‘gay cure’, claims a survey.
The research polled 3,001 health and social care workers directly involved in patient care. 10 per cent of workers said a colleague had vocalised belief in a “gay cure”; 22 per cent had heard such beliefs expressed.
60 per cent of those who had heard discriminatory remarks towards LGBT individuals did not report the incident, while 26 per cent of LGBT care workers said they had experienced homophobic or biphobic bullying from colleagues in the last five years…