PHOENIX: 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:
282: A callous carer who said she could “smell steak pie” when referring to a dying or unwell resident has been struck off the register for a catalogue of heartless abuses.
She lost her job as a senior carer after being sacked by employers when several allegations of misconduct came to light in November 2013.
When the case was heard this month, she was told that her actions were “fundamentally incompatible with being a social service worker”, before being removed from the register for supervisors in a skilled nursing home service for adults…