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.

930: A skilled nursing home will continue to provide services for its users following a stabbing inside the facility where a woman was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

The care centre manager has released a statement after a 68-year-old woman living at the centre needed urgent medical treatment for multiple stab wounds to her body.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.