Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime WASHINGTON, D.C.: 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.

1118: A former employee of a hospital and nursing home has filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit saying she was fired in retaliation for reporting the center did not properly handle a scabies outbreak, allowing it to spread.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.