Aged care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeDALLAS: 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.

1150: Police say a gunman shot three people outside a skilled nursing home before killing himself as police closed in on him.

Police described the gunman as an elderly male and says he was a resident of the skilled nursing home.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.