TULSA: 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:
26. Attacks on the 84-year-old were captured on a secret camera which had been hidden in a television set after the elderly resident’s family became suspicious of constant and unexplained injuries.
In one clip, the frail pensioner can be seen being grabbed by the hair and roughly thrown down on her bed.
In another shocking clip the care worker smashes her elbow into the back of the patient’s head and back.
The elderly woman’s attempts to defend herself were met by more violence…