Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime SAN FRANCISCO: 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.

610: A family is suing a skilled nursing home for alleged negligence after leaving a dementia patient unsupervised who then suffered a fatal fall.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.