Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeWASHINGTON, 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.

1122: The daughter of the elderly woman – who was left in a bathroom overnight in a nursing home has contacted this news site to tell of her family’s “upset” at what happened their mother.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.