On this page you will find contact information for resources that provide help for responding to elder financial abuse.
Learn what happens after elder financial exploitation has been reported. Elder justice professionals will discuss their organizations’ roles in reporting and investigating elder financial exploitation, as well as share resources for the field.
We’re pleased to announce the release of the Elder Fraud Prevention and Response Networks Development Guide to help stakeholders bring community members together in the fight against elder financial exploitation.
We can help you identify stakeholders to include in your elder fraud protection network to promote elder justice in your community.
Learn how to build an elder fraud prevention and response network to protect older adults in your community from financial exploitation.
Elder justice stakeholders can learn from best practices of networks that adapted in the last several years and replicate their efforts in their communities.
Learn how an elder fraud prevention and response network can help a community respond to elder fraud and exploitation.
Research and resources to help communities, volunteers and others in the fight against elder financial exploitation.
Elder financial exploitation (EFE) robs millions of older adults of their money and property. This report provides the first comprehensive description of the experience of how older adults recover from elder financial exploitation.
In 2020, financial institutions filed over 62,000 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to report suspected elder financial exploitation (EFE) involving over $3.4 billion.
Elder financial exploitation (EFE) is the illegal or improper use of an older adult’s funds, property, or assets. This can include financial abuse committed by someone the elder knows, or financial fraud committed by a stranger. This webinar will feature ways financial institutions and financial technologies that process electronic payments can play important roles in combatting EFE.
Expand the capabilities of your elder fraud prevention and response network.
Explore cross-training topics your stakeholders can use to present relevant information to your elder fraud prevention network.
This webinar will cover the planning process, resources, and promising practices from successful elder fraud convenings, lessons learned, and how to plan convenings in rural communities.
Hundreds of communities across the United States have created collaborative networks to protect their older residents. This report highlights what elder...
Five federal financial regulatory agencies, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and state financial regulators issued a statement today to provide supervised institutions with examples of risk management and other practices that may be effective in combatting elder financial exploitation.
We provide tools, resources, and templates to help you plan a convening to build or revitalize your elder fraud prevention and response network.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released an online resource to help communities form networks to increase their capacity to prevent and respond to elder financial abuse.
This report identifies key patterns revealed in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on elder financial exploitation filed by financial institutions with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from 2013 to 2017.
The Bureau released a report about key facts, trends, and patterns revealed in Suspicious Activity Reports—or SARs—filed by banks, credit unions, casinos, and other financial services providers from 2013-2017. This first-ever public analysis provides a chance to better understand elder fraud and to find ways to improve prevention and response.
