Posts Tagged ‘elder abuse by family members’
Warning Sign #2 You are Working With an Aging Dysfunctional Family
Fiscal abuse is a ” sleeper” form of abuse, yet a pernicious aging family problem. Adult children committed a whopping 40% of the abuse.
Read MoreTen Warning Signs of Aging Dysfunctional Family- Warning Sign Number Two
Care managers can help them avoid abuse and support them to get the care they need for their aging parents who neglected them as children.
Read MoreHow Fairy Tale Lives of Aging Rich and Famous Become Elder Abuse Nightmares
This week a New York Times article , on 93-year-old billionaire media mogul, Sumner Redstone ,offered a lesson on how to avoid financial elder abuse . Redstone may be his own…
Read MoreWhat Are the Red Flags For Caregiver Elder Abuse?
If caregiver abuse is suspected, a caregiver assessment is a critical immediate tool. This is a situation where the GCM must contact Adult Protective Services, following their own…
Read MoreFinancial Abuse as an IADL -Undue Infuence
What is undue influence? Undue influence is when an individual who is stronger or more powerful gets a weaker individual to do something that the weaker person would not have…
Read MoreThe 2nd Most Dangerous IADL- Financial Management
IADL Handling Financial Affairs Another IADL a geriatric care manager or aging professional assess ,is handling financial affairs Can the older person plan, budget, manage investments, pay bills, balance…
Read MoreFiscal Elder Abuse- Spotting it Over the Holidays
Fiscal Elder abuse can be detected during the holiday season by visited family / Paula Span, in her New Old Age column in the New York Times gave some very…
Read MoreWhat Is a Psychosocial Assessment? – Elder Abuse
How a Geriatric Care Manager-Is a Superhero for Elder Financial Abuse
Bunni Dybniss LCSW, certified care manager and Director of Professional Services at Livhome , a national geriatric care management agency, and I wrote an article explaining why a geriatric care…
Read MoreElder Fiscal Abuse- It even Happened to Mickey Rooney
In my book Handbook of Geriatric Care Managers 3rd edition , I researched is elder abuse and how a family caregiver may be stopped from falling off that violent…
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