Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

SEATTLE: 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:

71. Police have charged a 61-year-old man with aggravated sexual battery of a resident of an assisted living facility. He is also a resident of the facility and knew the 79-year-old victim.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.

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