Primary Education Topic:
Legal & Ethical Issues
Other Education Topics:
Aging in Community
Health & Wellness
Leadership in Aging
Policy and Advocacy
After multiple missed opportunities for intervention, a community finally responds—and an offender is held accountable.
In July 2008, 68-year-old Mr. S appeared on the doorstep of his longtime friend, Virginia, carrying a garbage bag that contained everything he owned. Despite the fact that he lived just a few miles away, Virginia hadn’t seen him in well over a year. She invited him inside. In halting, labored speech, he told her about having been abused and financially exploited by a woman he’d met in a bar months earlier.