In my practice at the legal aid clinic here, elder financial abuse is often a quiet theft by a trusted relative—using a joint account to drain savings, cashing blank cheques signed for “help,” or coercing a gift deed for property. Prevention needs legal awareness first: elders must never sign blank cheques or add names to assets without independent legal advice.
Just last week, I met an elderly woman whose son, using a blank cheque she’d signed for school fees, emptied her account. Her resigned face, so like my own mother’s after a long day at the market, is why I now hold community sessions at the local library, explaining these very tricks over cups of black tea.
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