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.

814: Police are hunting a would-be poisoner who poured rat pellets into food at a skilled nursing home for the elderly.

A chef found them in bags of uncooked pasta and flour in a store room.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.