BOSTON: 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:
207. A pensioner has been jailed after burgling the homes of neighbours at his sheltered housing complex.
He had been handed a master key to all 32 flats so he could let workmen in to do repairs.
But he used it to let himself in as well and pilfered watches, bank cards, cash and even china tea sets.