HOUSTON: Retirement communities and rest 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:
391: A woman has been arrested following an indictment for felony exploitation of a vulnerable person.
The woman was employed as a nurse aide at an assistant living facility. She obtained money from two residents without authorisation and fraudulently converted it to her own use…