Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: 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:

432: A skilled nursing home supervisor, caught out over the drink drive limit, worked with Alzheimer’s sufferers. She was caught just after midnight the day after she bought her new Mini.

She had drunk two small bottles of lager and had learned a “very harsh lesson” to discover she had broken the law.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.