Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime DALLAS: 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.

1104: A woman who stole thousands in cash from the bank account of an autistic man, who lived at the skilled nursing home where she was manager, has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.