The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has gathered resources to help serve older adults or family members managing the finances of a loved one. Please see the Resource Guide for helpful tools.
LTCCC Primer: Essential Nursing Home Quality Standards
Nursing Home Quality Standards: A Primer for Residents, Families, Olmbudsman, and Advocates by Richard J. Mollot.
2018 NADRC: Handbook for Helping People Living Alone with Dementia Who Have No Known Support
The Handbook for Helping People Living Alone with Dementia Who Have No Known Support provides practical guidance as well as tools for helping a person living alone who does not have informal supports, including people with dementia who have a…
Guard Your Medicare Card
You probably know that Medicare cards are changing to help protect your identity. Your new card will have a new Medicare Number that’s unique to you, instead of your Social Security Number. Unfortunately, con artists may still try to steal…
Managing Someone Else’s money: New protection from ID theft and fraud
Today the Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection posted a joint blog about new federal law provisions regarding credit freezes and “protected consumers.” Now people with certain legal authority can act on someone else’s behalf to…
Practice Tips for Understanding Undue Influence.
Understanding undue influence is a core component of advising clients in their advance planning, as well as preventing and spotting elder abuse. Undue influence replaces the will or free choice of the individual with the will or choice of another…
Warnings About Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly Go Unheeded
original article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/901169?nlid=124644_4503&src=wnl_dne_180827_mscpedit&uac=66422BV&impID=1722802&faf=1 by Alicia Ault August 24, 2018 Despite years of warnings about the hazards of prescribing benzodiazepines for the elderly, these drugs continue to be used at a higher rate than what is considered appropriate in older Americans…
Guardianship and the Right to Visitation, Communication, and Interaction
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging has published a new legislative fact sheet, Guardianship and the Right to Visitation, Communication, and Interaction, which offers assistance regarding the laws surrounding visitation and guardianship, and how to navigate this tricky…
Investment Risk, Explained
There is no such thing as a risk-free investment. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds can lose value, even their entire value, if market conditions sour. And even conservative, insured investments, such as certificates of deposit (CDs) carry their…
Legal Basics: Protecting Older Adults Against Scams
The National Center on Law & Elder Rights has created a helpful and expansive legal resource to outline warnings against and solutions for common scams targeted at older adults. Key Lessons 1. Older adults are targeted for frauds and scams…