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.

1145: An 81-year-old resident of a nursing home shot and killed himself with his own legally registered handgun — a death that enforcement officials said Tuesday is as troubling as it is mystifying.

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.