Aged care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimeSAN FRANCISCO: 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.

1164: The family of a grandmother found battered and bruised at a nursing home is devastated after serious assault charges against a carer were dropped.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.