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.
851: A pensioner’s room at a nursing home smelled of urine, faeces, cigarette smoke and body odour when three of his former carers visited him, a court heard.