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:
291: A skilled nursing home has been served with enforcement notices after vulnerable patients were exposed to ‘unsafe care’.
Regulators found the skilled nursing home was ‘dirty and smelly’ in places and that residents were denied baths and showers because of staff shortages…