Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeSAN FRANCISCO: 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.

613: An elderly man was rescued from a broken down lift. Fire crews were called to a sheltered housing complex. The 75-year-old man was in the lift when it stopped working and had become distressed.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.