Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeLOS ANGELES: 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.

895: A private nursing home has been condemned in a health watchdog report after an unannounced inspection found rooms and bathrooms to be unhygienic and ‘malodorous’.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.