Very few people are willing to sign a paper that results in a family member’s incarceration. Why would anyone even consider such an action? On the surface this seems utterly absurd. This could never happen and to even suggest such a thing is ridicules. Anyone that proposes this idea is treading on thin ice and is about to make me angry.

This is the base of a serious problem. People that trust friends and family members unconditionally are very vulnerable for abuse. The older one gets the more likely this trust is used against senior citizens and the disabled.

This is not meant to have people distrust other family members or to cause problems within a family. However Musa Ansari, from Jefferson Area Board on Aging said that …”Our case managers tend to deal with more abuse by family members and care-givers. In the last five years the number of criminal investigations for elderly and disabled exploitations has almost tripled.