Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime HOUSTON: 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.

553: An elderly man fell three storeys to his death after a fire broke out in his supported living flat this morning.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.