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:
541: A skilled nursing home manager admitted stealing from a vulnerable and elderly man. She took the man’s watch and kept it even after he realised she had taken it and asked for her to hand it back.