Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime DALLAS: 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.

661: A carer attacked a wheelchair-bound 93-year-old dementia sufferer on Christmas Day. She now faces up to 12 months in jail for punching the frail pensioner in the face…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.