Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

SEATLLE: 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:

43. A female care worker is to appear in court on three charges of sexual assault she allegedly carried out against two vulenerable elderly residents of a skilled nursing home over a 16-month period.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.

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