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Costing us. There are 14,000 new reports each year of senior abuse which includes financial exploitation. In as many as 90 of financial cases, the senior is victimized by someone he or she knows well w. Unfortunately the real case is even worse. Many of the cases are never reported because they are not going to report financial exploitation, particularly when it involves a Family Member. As a consequence the true incidence of this abuse is not known. Identifying victims is particularly difficult...

Kept us from achieving solutions. We must identify those who are in the best position to determine red flags early on and encourage reporting to other governmental agencies. In maine we discovered one of the most valuable rediscourse among others to develop senior life. Senior life was created to increase identification and report reporting it. Prior to this, we met with representatives from the banks and Credit Unions to identify barriers to reporting abuse and financial exploitation. What we l...