This chapter dealt with special problems the elderly face on a daily basis. These special problems include suicide, crimes against older people, aging criminals, elder abuse, fraud, medical and health care fraud, drug abuse, and promoting consumer education. The elderly are abused in so many ways. This chapter talks about the different ways and who does it. "Some abuses against elders are committed by street thugs, others are perpetrated by presumably reputable business people and professionsals, and still others are committed by adult children or paid caretakers. And some of the abuse is self-inflicted" (Hillier & Barrow, 2011, p.317).
I learned a great amount of information from this chapter. What I found the most interesting about it was not realizing how much fraud actually happens to elder people and how many types of fraud there are out in the world. These types include social referal, land and home equity fraud, mail order, television, and e-mail fraud, telemarket fraud, credit card fraud, door-to-door sales, investment fraud, estate planning fraud, and medical and health care fraud. One that did not surprise me was the telemarket fraud because it happens to so many other people besides the elderly, although elderly are a lot more easy to target. But in the text it gives you a list of a few resources such as National Crime Prevention Council, Publishes Seniors and Telemarketing Fraud 101, National Consumer League's Fraud Center, Do Not Call Registry, Fedral Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, North American Securities Administrators Association, and the AARP (p. 333). This chapter also made me realize how something could go wrong at any moment because of how easy an elderly person is to target.
This will relate to my future professional goals because I want to be able to help an of the elderly clients I work with and try to get them out of any abuse that may be happening to them whether it is by someone else or by them. It will help me, help them become aware of what could happen to them in certain situation and to let them know to be cautious. It will also help me decide which actions I will want to take if one of my clients need my help.
Hillier, S. & Barrow, G. (2011). Aging, the individual, and society. 313-342. 9th ed. California: WADSWORTH.
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