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.

776: A former clinical nurse manager at a nursing home has been sent forward for trial accused of stealing from an elderly patient over a two-year period.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.