Eldercare Advisors- Portland, OR
My grandmother lives alone in a rural town in Montana. She is home most of the time and the telephone is her lifeline to her family and friends who live across the US. She has eight grandchildren. She is slightly hard of hearing. The setting is just right for a stranger to take advantage of [...]
An article appearing in today’s Oregonian prompted me to write a short post about elder abuse. The article is titled “Pair plead guilty to identity theft“. It’s a story about two would-be-caregivers that charged up a time share, a boat, and two vehicles on an unsuspecting 84 year old’s bank accounts (unauthorized, of course). The story is buried in the [...]
