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:
434: A skilled nursing home company, nine employees and a relative are named in a lawsuit accusing them of exploiting a man suffering with dementia.
Among purchases employees of the skilled nursing home are accused of making with the 89-year-old man’s savings are 14 vehicles. They also named themselves beneficiaries of his wills and estate after they isolated him from family, the suit claims…