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.

956: A prosecutor is asserting that a nurse was stealing painkillers from the nursing home where she worked, and then attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.