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:

344: A skilled nursing home boss spoke out yesterday after a former supervisor who mistreated an 84-year-old Alzheimer patient was jailed for 12 weeks.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.