Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Would You Be Willing To Report A Family Member For Financial Elder Abuse?

Here's a link to an article in Forbes from November 2014.

Would You Be Willing To Report A Family Member For Financial Elder Abuse?


It would take some nerve to report an abusive family member to law enforcement. We also know from the National Center on Elder Abuse that most abusers are family members. And they tell us that only 44 out of 1000 instances of abuse are reported to authorities. Why aren’t more cases reported to the very authorities capable of stopping the abusers?