Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeDALLAS: 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:

331: A nurse is charged with stealing patients’ medications at a nursing home where he worked.

According to the indictment, he willfully, unlawfully and feloniously acquired possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud or deception…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.