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.

1021: A skilled nursing home worker who stole thousands of pounds from an elderly woman in his care was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence of Friday.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.