How to Deal With Theft by a Caregiver
What to do about a financial crime committed by someone your parent knows
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- ID:
- 3646
- First Published:
- 17-Sep-2007
- Summary:
- What you need to know to protect your parent from financial abuse and theft. Plus, what to do if a theft has occurred.
Posted by Tiffiney Mancill 3 months ago
I have done all these things! I finally decided yesterday to report it to all the local news stations and local newspapers. Here is a copy of what I sent. Headliner: Who protects the elderly?!?! I am looking for some answers and some help. I found my grandmother after 25 years stuck in a nursing home and brought her here to live close to me. While doing all this I have been trying to find out how she ended up there and what happened to everything she's ever owned. I found out that a woman that proclaimed to be her friend and help her gained my grandmother's trust and took her for EVERYTHING SHE OWNED! She even had gotten my grandmother to put her on her checking account where my grandmothers pension and SS checks had been direct deposited. I went and got legal guardian over her to be able to investigate and do anything to help her. What gets me is that this woman didn't have guardianship nor needed it. She closed out my grandmothers account and took all the money and had been spending it over the course of approximatly a year. The whole time my grandmother with dementia is in the nursing home and is blind and can't move! It REALLY disturbs me that the law is for the thieves! No one can help my grandmother by getting her money or her belongings unless she hires a attorney here and in Houston. My grandmother has NO money and I have provided everyone, Social Security, Houston Police Dept, and Adult protective services with all the evidence and proof and a address for this woman and NO ONE WILL DO A THING! PLEASE HELP!