Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime HOUSTON: 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.

697: A care worker has admitted stealing from a dementia patient – and continued to steal from her after she had died.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.