BOSTON: 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:
303: A male nurse has been struck off after attacking a patient at a hospital.
He shouted “come on then” before launching the frenzied attack.
He head-butted the patient three times while he lay in critical care.
The shock was so much he had to be put on a ventilator.