Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: 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:

406: A pensioner who died at a skilled nursing home was “unlawfully killed”, a coroner has ruled.

He had suffered “catastrophic” abdominal injuries consistent with being “stamped upon or punched”, the inquest heard.

Police said it would be reviewing the findings.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.