HOUSTON: 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.
1184: A nurse who escaped jail for trussing an 88-year-old woman in her bed with a towel has appeared before the Nursing and Midwifery Council – for falling asleep at a different home, ignoring a patient’s low blood pressure and leaving needles lying around in another.