Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeDALLAS: 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.

672: A former employee at a skilled nursing home was sentenced Friday to serve one year in jail for stealing valuables from nine patients who ranged in age from 66 to 98, prosecutors said…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.