Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime CHICAGO: 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.

845: A vulnerable elderly man was kept in “abject squalor and filth” at a nursing home a court has heard.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.