Exploring Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Identifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors To Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention

• NCJ Number: 250756
• Date Published: March 2017
• Length: 65 pages
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored

Annotation

This study identified risk factors for elder financial exploitation from a socioecological perspective (i.e., individual, perpetrator, and community factors), so as to identify the most important factors that distinguish elder financial exploitation (FE) from other forms of abuse.

Abstract

This study explores risk factors across the socioecological framework (i.e. individual, perpetrator, and community-levels) to identify the most important factors that differentiate elder financial exploitation from other forms of abuse as well as pure versus hybrid financial exploitation.