Keeping older adults safe, protected, and healthy by preventing financial exploitation.
As the number of older adults increases, the incidence of financial exploitation is also expected to rise. This prevalent older adult maltreatment often goes undetected and unreported and may result in poor physiologic and/or psychological health outcomes that are not perceived as abuse-related by healthcare providers. This article focuses on financial exploitation of older adults as a health care problem, as it often occurs when vulnerable older adults are receiving help and/or health care services from trusted caregivers.
Donald W. Reynolds Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence Community Based Interdisciplinary Research, College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1100 North Stonewall, Room 363, PO Box 26901, Oklahoma City, OK 73126-0901, USA. Electronic address: janet-wilson@ouhsc.edu.
Janet
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Sullivan-Wilson
Donald W. Reynolds Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, College of Nursing, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1100 North Stonewall, PO Box 26901, Oklahoma City, OK 73126-0901, USA.
Kimethria L
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Jackson
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Abuse; Elderly; Exploitation; Financial; Older adults