TUCSON: 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:
85. A staffer who worked as a supervisor at a skilled nursing home neglected another resident, who was unable to communicate, by throwing his dinner in the trash then stating “if anyone asks, I fed him,” according to watchdogs.