{"id":882,"date":"2017-05-26T19:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T23:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elderfinancialfraudattorneys.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:57:45","slug":"experts-elder-financial-investment-fraud-continues-grow-alarming-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/experts-elder-financial-investment-fraud-continues-grow-alarming-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Financial and Investment Fraud Continues to Grow at an Alarming Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/iStock-513808904.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-513808904.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Research suggests nearly 40% of American seniors may experience financial abuse<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Across the U.S., millions of seniors each year become the victims of fraudulent financial and investment scams. In fact, one recent survey reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/etfs-and-funds\/personal-finance\/widespread-elder-fraud-sparks-responses\/\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">37% of senior caregivers<\/span><\/a> said their client had been a victim of financial fraud or abuse \u2013 and alarmingly, 40% of caregivers surveyed said that their client had been victimized more than once. The perpetrators, many of whom are family members, often take advantage of a senior\u2019s reduced mental capacity in order to persuade or pressure them into making serious financial mistakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To fix this problem, a variety of organizations, including state governments and nonprofits like AARP, have started initiatives to expand education for seniors, improve awareness and reporting among financial and healthcare workers, and increase the severity of punishment for those found guilty of elder fraud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/experts-elder-financial-investment-fraud-continues-grow-alarming-rate\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Elder Financial and Investment Fraud Continues to Grow at an Alarming Rate\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research suggests nearly 40% of American seniors may experience financial abuse Across the U.S., millions of seniors each year become the victims of fraudulent financial and investment scams. In fact, one recent survey reported that 37% of senior caregivers said their client had been a victim of financial fraud or abuse \u2013 and alarmingly, 40% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100],"tags":[1121],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elder-financial-and-investment-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elder Financial &amp; Investment Fraud Growing at Alarming Rate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Research suggests nearly 40% of American seniors may experience elder financial abuse, with many instances of the same person being victimized more than once.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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