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.

723: A broken door has been fixed at an apartment building where an elderly woman was disabled, but many still want increased security.

The village is a municipal housing apartment complex for the elderly and disabled.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.