Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

TULSA: 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:

91. A 101-year-old woman who suffered a serious head wound after falling out of bed at a failing skilled nursing home was not taken to the hospital, or seen by a doctor, for two days.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.

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