Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeLOS ANGELES: 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.

641: A trusted support worker stole thousands from the disabled residents he was supposed to care for.

He used the bank cards of a man with Down Syndrome and a woman with autism to plunder their accounts over a 12-month period.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.