BIRMINGHAM: 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.

1027: A care worker left a dementia sufferer with bruises after yanking him out of a chair while putting him to bed.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.