SAN FRANCISCO: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.
1157: A care assistant has been struck off for subjecting skilled nursing home residents to verbal abuse that included the insult ‘Hurry up and die’.