Task Force to Focus on Financial Exploitation of Seniors

Butler Radio Network reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Aging is in the process of organizing a task force to help prevent the financial exploitation of seniors. The task force's purpose is to better coordinate initiatives and support in spotting scams that target older men and women early. Its establishment follows research determining, among other things, that 65 percent of those who stole money from seniors were relatives, usually adult children. Moreover, just one in 10 cases of senior financial fraud were reported to authorities.