Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeCHICAGO: 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.

964: A nurse who slapped an 87-year-old dementia sufferer across the face during a karate chopping play fight has been kicked out of the profession.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.