Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimePHILADELPHIA: Retirement communities and rest 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:

386: A senior carer in a home for the elderly has been struck off after putting residents at risk by putting a drawing pin into a door alarm so she could go out for a cigarette…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.