Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime PHILADELPHIA: 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:

530: A dementia skilled nursing home has been criticised for putting people at “serious risk” after inspectors found vulnerable residents had been left lying in their beds for weeks on end.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.