Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: 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.

637: An investigation has been carried out after an elderly woman was allegedly bitten by a rat as she slept in a skilled nursing home.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.