Aged 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.

1178: A abusive nurse who branded a frail dementia patient an “old c***” has been suspended for a year.

She grabbed the 86-year-old woman and forced her into a room at a skilled nursing home.

When a colleague confronted her, she called them a “f*****g martyr” and joked about overmedicating patients.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.