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:
352: A senior care worker subjected a mentally ill patient to horrific abuse after losing her temper, a jury has decided.
Colleagues watched in horror as she shoved a faeces-stained flannel into the mouth of her helpless victim.
The 59-year-old care worker then told the woman she was going to be “treated like a dog” and was then subjected to a cold shower.