PHILADELPHIA: 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:
524: An inquest into the choking death of an 84-year-old nursing home resident has heard the man was not given CPR – partly because a nurse didn’t want to give him mouth-to-mouth without a mask.