{"id":28373,"date":"2025-06-16T00:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/help-elderly-clients-avoid-scams-and-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T00:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T05:56:27","slug":"help-elderly-clients-avoid-scams-and-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/help-elderly-clients-avoid-scams-and-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Elderly Clients Avoid Scams and Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"In 2024, elderly Texans (over 60 years old) were victims of 9,472 scams and lost $490 million\u2014and those are only the scams and losses that were reported to the FBI. June 15 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, which was created to highlight abuse (physical, financial, psychological) that many eldery people are subject to.\nYou work with all kinds of clients, and some of them are likely over 60. What can you do?\n\nThe US Department of Justice has resources to help spot such financial abuse, including real estate and investment scams.\nThe Seniors Real Estate Specialist designation helps REALTORS\u00ae meet the needs of maturing Americans when selling, buying, relocating, or refinancing residential or investment properties.\nThe American Land Title Association published a brief with statistics and links to resources.\u00a0\nAARP has a scams and fraud page, highlighting the latest scams and how to avoid them.\n\nShare these resources with older clients, and use them to recognize potential scams.\u00a0","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, elderly Texans (over 60 years old) were victims of 9,472 scams and lost $490 million\u2014and those are only the scams and losses that were reported to the FBI. June 15 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, which was created to highlight abuse (physical, financial, psychological) that many eldery people are subject to. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pintailcos.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}