Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime BOSTON: 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.

863: A skilled nursing home worker who ‘lost his temper’ and viciously assaulted a defenceless 86-year-old man – leaving the room splattered with blood – has been deported.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.