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:

450: A care worker shocked two elderly bed-ridden patients by showing them disturbing mobile phone images of a child and an animal being sexually abused, a court heard. The woman committed the offences whilst she was supposed to be looking after the patients on a ward.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.