LOS ANGELES: 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.
689: A nurse at a skilled nursing home will appear before the Nursing and Midwifery Council next week accused of assaulting and degrading a resident.
She allegedly placed a banana near a female resident’s genitals and told her it was ‘there for you if you get lonely through the night’.
She is also accused of throwing jelly babies at the same resident and assaulting her by grabbing and shaking her.