Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS 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.

897: A nursing home has closed down after inspectors placed it into special measures saying vulnerable residents were ‘at risk of abuse’.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.