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.

870: A coroner has branded a district nursing team ‘unfit for service’ after they failed to take action in caring for a dying woman – with one nurse ‘smiling and chuckling’ through the inquest.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.