Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime BOSTON: 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.

618: A report last month contains statistics that are “disgusting and discouraging”, says a politician.

The annual report shows there were five deaths classified as homicides in skilled nursing homes in 2013 and eight classified as homicides in 2014…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.