WASHINGTON, D.C.: 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.
840: Eight skilled nursing home staff – including the owner and cleaner – are accused of ‘deliberate neglect of a dementia sufferer who was living in abject squalor and filth in room stinking of urine and faeces’…