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:
354: A dementia nurse who made mistakes with drugs and altered patients’ charts has been struck off.
She was deputy manager at a skilled nursing home for elderly people when she made the blunders.