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:
535: Three skilled nursing home staff have been disciplined after a pensioner died having fallen and fractured her spine.
The retired factory worker passed away three days later of bronchopneumonia in hospital.