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:
315: A skilled nursing home matron has been struck off for bullying workers into giving residents laxatives and suppositories up to six times a day.
She was said to be ‘obsessed with constipation’ and had nurses and unqualified staff perform manual evacuations on terrified residents without the approval of a doctor.
A doctor asked to investigate said the 49 elderly residents were left in a “stinking sour gravy of faeces”.
One suffered a perforated bowel.