Dementia & Financial Exploitation: Who's Responsible?

Send us Fan MailSummary: This episode explores the silent crisis of elder financial exploitation, especially in the context of dementia. Charles Wallace shares his harrowing three-year legal battle to uncover how nearly $1 million was stolen from his mother, highlighting systemic failures and the urgent need for better safeguards.Key Topics: Elder financial exploitation and dementiaSystemic failures and responsibility gapsLegal and medical challenges in elder abuse casesAbout Charles E. Wallace, Jr.:Charles E. Wallace Jr. has a technology background in the finance, banking, healthcare, and collections industries. Charles is married with two daughters and two grandchildren. When he's not spending time with his family, working, or writing, he enjoys coaching youth basketball, outdoor activities, and cooking. Caregiver's Game: Unraveling Financial Deceit in the Shadows of Dementia is his first book. thecaregiversgame.comCharles became an authority on elder exploitation and undue influence by living through it. When COVID-19 lockdowns forced social isolation on elderly Americans, his mother's cognitive decline made her an easy target for a caregiver who used the restricted access to commit systematic theft. Red flags like unusual expenses and vanished family heirlooms led Charles into a three-year legal battle to expose the deception that flourished during a time when elder financial abuse rates jumped dramatically, and families were powerless to intervene.Support the show