HOUSTON: 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:
263: A fire at an aged care unit has killed an elderly woman and left another resident in hospital.
Emergency services were called to the aged care units.
They found the occupant of the unit dead and the woman living in the unit above suffering from smoke inhalation…