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.
702: A nurse has admitted to failing to complete a care plan for a pressure sore on a skilled nursing home resident’s foot, and to failing to carry out half hourly observations on another resident following a fall.