title: Undue influence and elder abuse: recognition and intervention strategies.
abstract: Undue influence is the substitution of one person's will for the true desires of another. Unlike common persuasion and sales techniques, such influence often entails fraud, duress, threats, or other deceits and pressures. Undue influence takes place when one person uses his or her role and power to exploit the trust, dependency, or fear of another to gain psychologic control over the weaker person's decision-making, usually for financial gain. Dependent and impaired people are particularly susceptible, but it can happen to anyone who otherwise would be considered capable and competent. The current interest in undue influence represents the union of three major forces: current and historical legal concepts, knowledge learned from domestic violence, specifically the field of elder abuse and neglect, and the distillation of relevant psychologic processes.
authors.forename: Mary Joy
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Quinn
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003068:Coercion; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans