The Quick Guide to Recognizing Elderly Fraud: Elderly Financial Abuse Prevention Made Easy

By Winston Phillips

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• Language: English
• Publisher: infoway
• Release date: Jun 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311037725

Winston Phillips

Retired agricultural economist from Grenada. Attended Universities in Jamaica, Trinidad (University of the West Indies), and the USA (Penn State). Wide international experience. Book published in 2010 at 69 years old.

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The Quick Guide to Recognizing Elderly Fraud:

Elderly Financial Abuse Prevention Made Easy

By Winston Phillips

Copyright (C) 2014

Smashwords Edition

Hardcopy ISBN-13: 978-1479325948

Hardcopy ISBN-10: 1479325945

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A free bonus ebook is included. Your ebooks are presented in this order:

1) THE QUICK GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING ELDERLY FRAUD: Elderly Financial Abuse Prevention Made Easy

2) Absolutely Essential Tips For Buying & Selling On eBay

THE QUICK GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING ELDERLY FRAUD:

Elderly Financial Abuse Prevention Made Easy

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Overview

3. The Aftermath

4. Warning Signs That a Senior Citizen Could Be (and/or is being) Financially Taken Advantage Of

5. Financial Abuse of Elders Caused by Romantic Relationships

6. Financial Abuse of Elders Committed by Relatives, Close Friends and Caregivers

7. Financial Abuse of Elders Committed by Servants, Repairmen and Contractors

8. Things You Can Do to Protect Your Senior Citizen Family Member or Friend

9. Little Known Things You Can Do To Hopefully Reclaim Lost Revenue

10. Various Elder Abuse Related Organizations

1.  Introduction

* Elder Americans were robbed of an estimated $2.9 billion in 2011, up 12 percent from 2008, according to a MetLife Mature Market Institute study.

* Kathleen Quinn, executive director of the National Adult Protective Services Association: Seniors who lose their money are more likely to go into a nursing home, die or go on Medicaid. This is a huge fiscal drain on Medicare and Medicaid. If we can prevent financial abuse or intervene early enough to save the money that remains, then that will save Medicare and especially Medicaid tons of money.

* According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, only one in 14 cases of abuse is actually reported. (2009 statement.)

* Once an older adult has been ripped off, he or she is likely to succumb to other fraudulent financial schemes, according to Prescott Cole, an attorney with the Coalition to End Elder Financial Abuse (CEASE). They will run into more and more of these kinds of scams and they will fall into each and every one of them Cole said.

* National Adult Protective Services Association is an organization representing adult protective service (APS) workers, who are responsible for investigating abuse, neglect and