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.

726: The boss of a skilled nursing home company was part of ‘organised and systematic abuse of vulnerable people’ a court has heard.

He and four other members of staff at two skilled nursing homes appeared in court yesterday charged with falsely imprisoning seven adults with learning disabilities.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.