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.
691: An experienced care worker who tied up an 85-year-old dementia sufferer with a dressing gown cord has avoided jail.
He was found guilty after a trial of neglecting or ill-treating a person lacking in mental capacity and was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months.