CHICAGO: 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:
292: The former manager of a children’s home is to stand trial accused of sexually abusing and mistreating youngsters at the home in the 1970s.
He is alleged to have committed the offences while he was the boss of the home, which has since closed…