Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS 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.

789: A carer punched a frail 82-year-old dementia patient after seeing he had wet himself, saying: ‘I don’t get paid enough’.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.