Protecting elderly family members from financial abuse

Why elderly people are disproportionately targeted

Scammers and abusers don't pick their targets at random. Elderly people are targeted more often because several things tend to line up at once: they're more likely to live alone or see fewer people day to day, which means a caller or visitor claiming to help may be one of the only conversations they have that week, with no one nearby to quietly ask, 'does this sound right to you?'