Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeLOS ANGELES: 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.

778: A caregiver in a skilled nursing home stands to receive over half a million dollars in total unpaid wages, overtime pay, liquidated damages and interest after a labour standards enforcing body ruled that his employer did not pay him fair wages.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.