Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: 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:

278: A skilled nursing home boss accused of violent abuse was given another job and sent a letter of thanks, an inquiry has heard.

Allegations of physical and sexual abuse were first made against him in the 1990s.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.