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:
464: A skilled nursing home has been criticised by the widow of a man who died after developing bedsores. At an inquest last Thursday, the court was told the resident had suffered a series of health problems in the years leading up to his death, including Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.