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.

867: A nursing home is under investigation following the death of a patient found outside.

The 65 year old may have been left in the sun and as a result received some second-degree burns. At the hospital, he went into cardiac failure and died.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.