COLUMBUS: 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:
27. Inspectors have blasted a skilled nursing home where residents could just wander about and rooms were dirty and “not fit for purpose”.
Regulators found a litany of serious problems, including hygiene issues, poor-quality food and lack of privacy and dignity.
Residents could simply walk out the back of the skilled nursing home and could also wander into the kitchen and hurt themselves on sharp objects which were left lying about.
Inspectors also heard of shocking incidents in which one resident left the home and was found by police suffering from hypothermia and another person went missing for around an hour and 45 minutes.