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:

454: A lack of regular checks by staff at a psychiatric skilled nursing home allowed a woman suffering from paranoid delusions the time to kill a fellow patient in her room.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.