Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime DALLAS: 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.

717: A “predatory” skilled nursing home worker has today been jailed for six years after being convicted of a string of sex attacks on nine female colleagues.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.