INVESTIAGTIONS IN ELDER ABUSE
Our private investigators can assist your family in recognizing the signs and might help to form sure that your elderly loved ones are well cared for. Within the course of the investigation, we perform thorough background investigations, conduct welfare checks and surveillance to make sure all is well together with your loved ones.
HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS OF ELDER ABUSE AND NEGLECT?
Abuse of elders can occur in many various forms, including intimidation or threats against the elderly, some involving neglect, involving financial trickery, etc…
PHYSICAL ELDER ABUSE
Physical elder abuse is when intentional use of force against on person who end up with an injury, physical pain, or impairment. Additionally, such abuse includes physical assaults like hitting or shoving and so the inappropriate use of medication, restraints, or confinement.
EMOTIONAL ELDER ABUSE
In emotional or psychological abuse, people speak to or treat elderly persons in ways in which cause emotional pain or distress, including:
Intimidation through yelling or threats
Humiliation and mocking
Habitual blaming or scapegoating
Ignoring the elderly person
Isolating an elder from friends or activities
Terrorizing or menacing the elderly person
ELDER NEGLECT OR ABANDONMENT BY CAREGIVERS
Elder neglect—failure to satisfy a caretaking obligation—constitutes over half of all reported cases of elder abuse. It will be intentional or unintentional, supported by factors like ignorance or denial that an elderly charge needs the maximum amount of care as he or she does.
FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION
This involves the unauthorized use of an elderly person’s funds or property, either by a caregiver or a scam artist.
An unscrupulous caregiver might:
Misuse of an elder’s personal credit cards, accounts, or checks
Steal cash, income checks, or household goods
Forge the elder’s signature
Engage in identity theft
Typical rackets that target elders include:
Informing the elderly person that he won prize money, but he needs to pay first to claim it
Phony charities
Investment fraud
HEALTHCARE FRAUD AND ABUSE
Carried out by unethical hospital personnel, and other professional care providers, some examples of healthcare fraud and abuse regarding elders include:
Carried out by unethical doctors, nurses, hospital personnel, and other professional care providers, samples of healthcare fraud and abuse regarding elders include:
Not providing healthcare, but charging for it
Overcharging or double-billing for treatment or services
Over medicating or under-medicating
Recommending deceptive remedies for illnesses or other medical conditions
Medicaid fraud
Not providing healthcare, but charging for it
Overcharging or double-billing for treatment or services
Getting a cut for referrals to other providers or for prescribing certain drugs
Over medicating or under-medicating
Recommending deceptive remedies for illnesses or other medical conditions
Medicaid fraud
HOW CAN A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR ASSIST IN AN ELDER ABUSE/NEGLECT INVESTIGATION?
BACKGROUND
INVESTIGATIONS
Our experienced private investigators will initiate thorough background checks on any and every person that inherits regular contact together with your elderly loved ones in conducting our background investigations. Most healthcare providers only undergo a basic criminal history search. We conduct a detailed search of all available civil and criminal records in our background investigations. Most significantly, these background investigations are done nationally and include all states where these individuals resided in.
Additionally, our investigators conduct field investigations on the regular basis. We contact and interview past employers and therefore the elderly persons that were cared for by these individuals. If needed, we also contact the family of the elderly to get additional facts.
WELFARE CHECKS
Our experienced private investigators conduct welfare checks. We’ll go onsite, unannounced and announced, to check on your elderly loved ones. We’ll confirm that they are doing well and are being cared for properly.
If we discover any issues, we are visiting work promptly by contacting you immediately and discussing options.
ASSET INVESTIGATIONS
Our experienced Private Investigators can help to uncover financial fraud. If financial abuse of your elderly loved ones is suspected, we will initiate an asset investigation to uncover who gained financially from this fraud.
SURVEILLANCE / HIDDEN CAMERA
Our private investigators can also initiate surveillance around your elderly loved ones and their caregivers. With discreet surveillance, we will ascertain if there’s any evidence of neglect or abuse.
In addition, we will discreetly place hidden cameras inside the house to see the living conditions and if there are any signs of neglect or abuse.