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:
363: A ‘predatory’ financial adviser has been jailed for stealing from vulnerable and elderly victims who considered him to be their friend.
He helped himself to huge sums of cash which he spent on holidays abroad and even his own daughter’s wedding.
Then, as his four victims became unable to make their own decisions, he stepped in to make himself a beneficiary of their wills…