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:
76. A former nurse’s aide at a skilled nursing home testified last Monday that on the day a patient died in 2012, the staff – including herself – did not respond for about two hours to audible and visual alarms notifying them the woman was in distress.