Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

CLEVELAND: Retirement communities and rest 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:

11. A skilled nursing home manager stole prescriptions from GPs who visited elderly residents and used them to ‘stockpile’ drugs.

The deputy manager forged doctors’ signatures to claim large quantities of pain reliever Tramadol.

She has been sentenced to a community order…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.

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