Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeDALLAS: 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.

951: A skilled nursing home resident was trussed up like a mummy by a pair of carers looking to ensure they had a quiet shift.

The pensioner, 88, was tightly bound in a large bath towel leaving her unable to move in bed…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.