Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime HOUSTON: 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.

554: A resident of a nursing home managed by the same company as a senior home where three fatal falls occurred has died after a fall and the bereaved family is suing the organisation.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.