Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeLOS ANGELES: 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.

881: A sly carer has been jailed for 32 months for robbing a pensioner with dementia out of her life savings to pay for a gastric band operation and a games console.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.