Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeHOUSTON: 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.

669: A film-maker has revealed the “heartbreaking” rat-infested squalor his elderly grandfather is forced to live in at a retirement home.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.