PHILADELPHIA: 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:
334: A care assistant who repeatedly pinched a 93-year-old dementia sufferer’s nose at a skilled nursing home – and a colleague who laughed as he filmed the abuse – have escaped immediate prison sentences…