Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

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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.

558: An elderly resident went without a bath or shower for more than seven weeks at an “unclean” skilled nursing home.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.