Try: Financial exploitation involves unauthorized use of an elderly person’s funds or property either by a caregiver or an outside scam artist an unscrupulous caregiver might misuse an elder’s personal checks credit cards or accounts steal cash income checks or household goods forge the elder’s signature engage in identity theft typical rackets that target elders include announcements of a "prize" that the elderly person has won but must pay money to claim phony charities investment fraud signs of financial exploitation significant withdrawals from the elder’s accounts sudden changes in the elder’s financial condition items or cash missing from the senior’s household suspicious changes in wills power of attorney titles and policies addition of names to the senior’s signature card unpaid bills or lack of medical care although the elder has enough money to pay for them financial activity the senior couldn’t have done such as an atm withdrawal when the account holder is bedridden unnecessary services goods or subscriptions information references "elder abuse and neglect warning signs risk factors prevention and help" by laurence robinson tina de benedictis and jeanne segal 2011 available at

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Categories: Sage, Topic, Emotional Psychological, Financial, Legal

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Keywords: Elder abuse fraud neglect financial stealing criminal activity

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