Financial Abuse – Not just theft by strangers

For this factsheet the focus is financial abuse. When we hear the term ‘financial abuse’ we often think of someone stealing an older person’s savings.

However it could also be a relative or a carer spending the older person’s money on themselves when they’re doing that person’s shopping, or refusing to let them decide what to spend their money on, or telling the older person they deserve or need money from them, perhaps by making them feel they are a burden or by telling them a hard luck story about their read more …