Interesting column in Dallas Morning News by Pamela Yip talks about elder financial abuse... fits my DM exactly...she's just 'too nice'...
But it’s not just seniors with cognitive decline who become victims.
“More unexpectedly, we found a significant relationship between how friendly a person was over the course of his or her life and the amount of money lost,” True Link’s report said. “We call it ‘friendly grandma syndrome.’
“You tell Mom to hang up on telemarketers, but she is just too polite to hang up on anyone, and before you know it, she’s ready to bake them cookies.”
In fact, someone described as “extremely friendly” over the course of his or her life is likely to experience four times the financial losses of someone with a more typical level of friendliness, the study found
But it’s not just seniors with cognitive decline who become victims.
“More unexpectedly, we found a significant relationship between how friendly a person was over the course of his or her life and the amount of money lost,” True Link’s report said. “We call it ‘friendly grandma syndrome.’
“You tell Mom to hang up on telemarketers, but she is just too polite to hang up on anyone, and before you know it, she’s ready to bake them cookies.”
In fact, someone described as “extremely friendly” over the course of his or her life is likely to experience four times the financial losses of someone with a more typical level of friendliness, the study found