Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime PHILADELPHIA: 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:

516: A care worker force-fed a disabled man by pushing his head back so hard a witness thought it might break his neck.

The carer shouted at the man: “Eat your food now. I have not got all day. I have other things to do.”

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.