Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime BOSTON: 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.

751: The death of an elderly skilled nursing home patient is being investigated after he was found with foreign objects inside him.

The man was admitted to the hospital with vomiting, diarrhoea and breathing difficulties

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.