ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER According to a Santa Rosa police sergeant, the Santa Rosa police recently arrested a self-employed counselor for elderly clients on suspicion of financial elder abuse. The suspect is accused of stealing...
Category: financial elder abuse
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Annuities are not always a suitable investment for the elderly, and they should educate themselves in order to avoid making a bad investment. Senior citizens hold two-thirds of the wealth in this country...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) gives tools and advice for people to protect their retired parents against fraud and scammers. The growing elderly population loses billions per year as a...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER True Link Financial, a California-based company that provides assistance and tools to seniors and their families to prevent elder abuse, released a 2015 report estimating that financial elder abuse costs...
Combating Elder Abuse
July 1, 2015
Instances of elder abuse, both physical and financial, usually go unreported because the victims think no one will believe them or that they have no one to turn to with their evidence. If an older man is living in a nursing...