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:

476: An elderly woman whose death was “hastened by falls” sustained at her skilled nursing home and a further fall from a trolley whilst in hospital died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.