Category: Caregiver Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Entrusted To Pay Victim’s Bills Unpaid Rent Leads To Eviction Caregiver Allegedly Stole Thousands While most financial elder abuse starts out relatively small, the amounts stolen grow over time as the predator gets away with his or her theft. Left undetected, financial elder abuse can go on […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Case Example Victim Suffered From Dementia Protecting Older Loved Ones According to FBI and National Institute of Justice statistics, as many as one in 10 seniors are victims of financial elder abuse. Their financial predators are most often caregivers or other persons in close proximity to their victims. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Pension And Social Security Benefits Redirected Victim’s Profiles Changed Online Protecting Older Loved Ones  Dishonest caregivers with internet access may gain access to a senior’s pension or Social Security benefit profiles with just a few pieces of important information like the senior’s date of birth and Social Security […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Fraud On Elderly Thousands In Unauthorized Purchases Protecting Older Loved Ones Unauthorized use of an elderly or dependent person’s debit and credit cards is a frequently recurring form of financial elder and dependent adult abuse. Sometimes the cases involve actual use of a credit card at stores […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Case Example 85-Year-Old Victim Protecting Seniors From Caregiver Fraud Online account access and unauthorized use of debit and credit cards are two of the most widely seen kinds of theft from older persons.  The perpetrator of such theft is often a dishonest caregiver with in-home access to an […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse Takes Various Forms Warning Signs Of Elder Neglect And Abuse Remedies For Victims  The National Council on Aging says up to five million older Americans are abused yearly, and the annual loss by victims of financial elder abuse is estimated to be at least $36.5 billion. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Senior Victim Of Caregiver Fraud Caregiver Entrusted To Pay Senior’s Bills Unauthorized Card Charges And Overdrawn Account Never hand an ATM/debit card or credit card to a caregiver and ask them to go get cash or make purchases. Never give out any PIN numbers. Never give a caregiver […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Case Example Of Caregiver Fraud Monitoring Senior’s Accounts Caught Theft Protecting Seniors From Financial Elder Abuse And Caregiver Fraud Fraud on seniors by their paid in-home caregivers (referred to as “caregiver fraud”) is a recurring form of financial elder abuse. Whenever a dishonest caregiver or other stranger enters […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Durable Powers Of Attorney Grant Authority Over All Finances Inherent Risk Of Power Of Attorney Abuse Powers Of Attorney And Financial Elder Abuse Powers of Attorney (POAs) are important estate planning documents that grant the agent appointed under the POA full legal authority to act for the principal […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER All Seniors Potential Victims Of Financial Elder Abuse How To Protect Senior Loved Ones Remedies For Financial Elder Abuse Seniors at every economic level, rich or poor, married or single, male or female, straight or LGBTQIA+ are potential victims of financial elder abuse. Often, the financial abuser is […]