Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime DALLAS: 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.

811: The police department says it’s investigating an incident at a nursing home. A patient was being combative and would not comply with officers, so they used a taser to get the man under control.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.