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:
469: A skilled nursing home boss who abandoned the vulnerable residents in his care six times has been struck off. He left residents at the skilled nursing home without adequate nursing cover for more than five hours on one occasion.