Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crime LOS 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.

910: A carer who ‘played a game’ of pretending to be an old woman’s adopted daughter cruelly fleeced the 91-year-old out of her savings.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.