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.

864: A skilled nursing home manager who stole a veteran’s life savings before he died in distress and had to be given a pauper’s grave has been jailed for three years.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.