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.
639: The coronial inquest into the death of an 85-year-old woman in a nursing home has started.
The inquest has heard that her head and neck had become caught between the mattress and a bed pole used for mobility.
A postmortem examination found she died from positional asphyxiation.