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.
1221: The wife of an elderly man who was violently assaulted while sleeping in his nursing home bed last weekend says she “feels sickened by what he has to endure at the end of his life.”