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.
690: Two carers have been suspended over claims they cruelly taunted dementia patients by snatching away and torturing their ‘comfort dolls’.
A shocking video taken at a skilled nursing home appears to show a member of staff throwing a doll to the floor in front of an elderly resident while shouting ‘die baby, die!’