PHOENIX: 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.
1170:With its parent company in free fall, and its president facing a mountain of debt and domestic violence charges, a nursing home became a dirty and dangerous place.
As bills went unpaid, the phones were shut off. Paychecks bounced. Trash piled up, and the building was infested with flies.
Then the food deliveries stopped. Employees had to dip into their own pockets for grocery runs. Residents complained that they were hungry. A employee was seen trying to make a smoothie from seven pieces of dry toast.