DALLAS: 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.
1138: An employee of a nursing home has been charged with 2nd degree robbery. Surveillance video showed an attempt to steal a ring right off the finger of a resident who’s struggling with dementia. The resident suffered some scarring from the attempted theft.