Elder Financial Abuse and Electronic Financial Instruments: Present and Future Considerations for Financial Capacity Assessments

Elder abuse and financial exploitation: unlawful and just plain awful!

China’s Financial System: Past, Present, and Future

We examine and compare the role of China’s financial system in supporting the growth of firms and the economy with that in other countries, and explore directions of future development. First, we find that the current financial system is dominated by a large but inefficient banking sector. Reducing the amount of non-performing loans among the major banks to normal levels is the most important o...

Elder financial abuse: an evaluation framework and supporting evidence.

OBJECTIVES To develop a valid and reliable framework for evaluating cases of alleged elder financial abuse. DESIGN Experienced experts in elder financial abuse rated a framework with eight elements. SETTING Professionals attending an advanced training course on elder abuse. PARTICIPANTS Deputy district attorneys (n=44), senior law enforcement detectives (n=59), Adult Protective Service wo...

Financial exploitation, financial capacity, and Alzheimer's disease.

Research in the past decade has documented that financial exploitation of older adults has become a major problem, and psychology is only recently increasing its presence in efforts to reduce exploitation. During the same time period, psychology has been a leader in setting best practices for the assessment of diminished capacity in older adults culminating in the 2008 American Bar Association ...

Elder financial abuse: Tips for the medical director.

Financial abuse against older individuals is estimated to be the second most common form of abuse, following only selfneglect in terms of incidence. 1 Estimates of financial abuse range from 20% to 30% of all abuse against older people. 1,2 Financial abuse is predicted to continue to increase in the future, because the population of older people is still increasing and because older people have...