Category: Elder Financial Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Complicated Deferred Annuities Unsuitable For Seniors Beware of High-Pressured Sales Tactics Like “Estate Planning Seminars” “Bonuses” Are Marketing Gimmicks Insurance companies offer sales commissions as high as 10 percent to insurance agents who sell products like long-term deferred annuities to senior citizens.  In our current economic environment, agents […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregiver Allegedly Stole Nearly $100,000 Charges Include Financial Elder Abuse, Embezzlement and Forgery Couple’s Family Discovered Financial Irregularities Forced isolation of seniors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, together with the nation’s severe economic downturn have led to a huge spike in financial elder abuse cases throughout […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolation And Control Can Lead To Financial Abuse Caregivers, Strangers, Domestic Partners, Second Spouses Can All Be Predators Identifying Signs of Financial Abuse Elder abuse is often associated with behavior that displays outward signs – bruises from physical violence or insults and threats from verbal assaults, for example, […]

Listen to the in-depth interview of Ingrid M. Evans on elder abuse by an international news team based in Germany: Prominent International News Organization ARD Interviews Elder Abuse Attorney Ingrid Evans – YouTube

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolation Is Breeding Ground For Financial Abuse Unauthorized ATM Withdrawals Make Up Greatest Percentage Of Losses  Helping Isolated Seniors Throughout the United States and here in California and Santa Cruz County, incidents of financial elder abuse have skyrocketed as a result of the isolation of seniors, and the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Isolated Woman Falls Prey To Financial Abuse False Pretenses, Impersonations And Deceit Led To $4.85 Million Loss Federal Prosecution Awaits Defendant Elder advocates estimate that around five million seniors are financially exploited each year financially, with anywhere from $2.9-36.5 billion in personal financial losses annually. These astonishing figures are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Isolation Primary Risk Factor For Elder Abuse Perpetrators Exploit Isolated Elderly How You Can Help Isolated Seniors The persistence of unintended consequences from the best of intentions has a sad impact on seniors in this pandemic.  The very same safety measures put in place to isolate and protect […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Online Access To Social Security Benefits Dementia Sufferers And Invalid Powers of Attorney Seeking Justice For Injured Seniors When seniors suffer a stroke, are hospitalized, or experience deepening dementia, the risk of financial elder abuse becomes very high.  The San Diego County and California elder abuse attorneys at […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Federal Prison Sentence For Defrauding Elderly Couple $1.6 Million Scheme Allegedly Lasted Two Years Thousands Of Phone Calls To Older Couples Produced Hundreds Of Transfers Financial elder abuse is sometimes a single event or transaction but more commonly it is a sustained scheme playing out over time. Reports […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Promoting Alzheimer’s Awareness To Prevent Elder Abuse Act 1 in 10 People Over 60 Experience Abuse Prevalence Much Higher For People With Dementia Disorders Both sides of the aisle in Congress recently united to pass legislation intended to add in the protection for Alzeheimer’s sufferers against elder abuse.  […]