Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeBOSTON: 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:

475: A mental health nurse has been suspended for a year after she forced a patient to take pills as if she was “trying to give a dog worming tablets”.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.