CHICAGO: 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:
436: A government department says three dementia patients at a skilled nursing home were sexually abused by an employee.
The female employee made inappropriate sexual contact with the patients on different occasions earlier this year. The caregiver denied touching the women, and said her contact with the male came during the course of cleaning him.