DALLAS: 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.
730: A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges a nurse administered a dose of a powerful painkiller during an overnight shift. Despite not being in pain, a resident was over-medicated and suffered “severe respiratory distress,” causing her to be hospitalized the next day.
She was declared dead two days later.