Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeWASHINGTON, D.C.: 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.

958: A former police volunteer who tried to kill three of her colleagues at a skilled nursing home when she spiked water with cleaning products and eye drops was jailed for life this afternoon…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.