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:

415:A greedy skilled nursing home worker who plundered the bank accounts of vulnerable residents with learning difficulties has been jailed.

She was entrusted, as a team leader, to withdraw cash on the victims’ behalf.

But over a nine month period she “systematically” milked her clients accounts.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.