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Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

PORTLAND: 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 Read More »

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Court decision muddles dementia consent issue

MILWAUKEE: A jury has found 78-year-old Henry Rayhons not guilty of charges that he sexually abused his wife by having sex with her in a skilled nursing home after the staff told him her Alzheimer’s rendered her cognitively unable to give consent.

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Assisted living resident threatens staff

DENVER: A woman at an assisted living facility who allegedly threatened to hurt two employees was being held last night.

The assisted living resident told one woman she would cut her throat as soon as she found a knife.

She also told another woman she Read More »

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