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.

807: A nurse who has an alcohol problem, lost her temper in her skilled nursing home.

She has pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening manner and shouting and swearing. She has been placed on a supervised community payback order for six months.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.