DALLAS: 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:
262: A residential facility for the elderly has been ordered shut by the state after deplorable and unsanitary conditions were discovered inside the building.
According to inspectors, residents were not only found in their own waste, but some were tied to their beds.