LOS ANGELES: 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:
281: A skilled nursing home where a resident died alone because there were not enough staff had been branded inadequate.
A report, published last week following a visit in March, found there were “not enough staff to provide continued presence to a person at their last stage of life and they died alone”.