SAN FRANCISCO: 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:
252. A man who plundered hundreds and thousands from his dementia-suffering gran, who was in her nineties, will have to pay back less than a quarter of one per cent of what he took.
He abused his position of holding enduring lasting power of attorney to help himself to the sick old lady’s savings. As well as buying a house with the money he also went on luxury holidays.