Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime SAN 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.

611: A nurse is to face a disciplinary hearing over allegations she tried to insert a catheter into a distressed patient who had recently undergone hip surgery.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.