HOUSTON: 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:
38. An accountant has been sentenced to more than seven years in jail for “plundering” the estate of an 88-year-old woman with dementia, during an extended period of criminality in which he stole more than $1.2 million.