Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime BOSTON: 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.

747: A nurse has been struck off for the “deplorable and disgraceful” theft from an elderly resident at a skilled nursing home he managed.

Full story covered in the Dementia Business Weekly.