Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeWASHINGTON, D.C.: 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.

823: Police say a nurse’s assistant used a resident’s identity to open bogus credit card accounts.

Now police have filed new charges, on new cases, that came while he was awaiting trial on the last ones…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.