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:
322: Allegations that a nurse tied an elderly resident to a chair are being investigated.
The agency nurse has been released on bail following reports of an alleged assault which is said to have left the resident bruised and shaken…