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.

775: A former nursing home employee has admitted battering a resident at the facility. He was sentenced to one year of home detention followed by 545 days on sex offender probation.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.