A University of Chicago study reveals that approximately 13 percent of elderly Americans experience some sort of mistreatment. The most common form of abuse was verbal, experienced by 9 percent of elderly Americans, then financial mistreatment, experienced by 3.5 percent, and then physical abuse, reported by .2 percent of the…
Police have arrested an Escondido couple for cheating elderly victims throughout San Diego County in a financial scam that garnered $1.5 million. According to police, Janet and Ronald Reiswig cheated 30 people in the county, most of them senior citizens. The Reiswigs have been charged with 79 criminal counts, including…