Aged care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimePHOENIX: 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.

1168: An elderly man developed gangrene and later died in hospital after staff at a skilled nursing home failed to properly monitor and treat pressure wounds on his buttocks and feet.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.