Egan: Shocking elder-abuse case shows our shameful complacency

Old, defenceless and slapped around. It is the fate that awaits some of the city’s most vulnerable — the numbers just don’t lie.
In 2016, an estimated 564,000 Canadians were dealing with dementia, a number expected to rise 66 per cent — to 937,000, or equivalent to the entire population of Ottawa — by 2031. How many Georges Karams will be among them?
In a disturbing story in Tuesday’s Citizen, the 89-year-old grandfather was shown being victimized by a persona