Aged care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: 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.

1195: A woman has pleaded no contest to a charge related to the death of a patient who was burned after falling asleep near a fireplace.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.