Our private investigators can assist your family in recognizing the signs and will work to make sure your elderly loved ones are well cared for. In the course of our elder abuse investigations, we perform thorough background investigations, conduct welfare checks and surveillance to make sure all is well with your loved ones.
Abuse of elders takes many different forms, including intimidation or threats against the elderly, some involving neglect, and others involving financial trickery.
Physical elder abuse is the non-accidental use of force against an elderly person that results in physical pain, injury, or impairment. Such abuse includes physical assaults such as hitting or shoving and the inappropriate use of drugs, restraints, or confinement.
In emotional or psychological abuse, people speak to or treat elderly persons in ways that cause emotional pain or distress, including:
Elder neglect—failure to fulfill a caretaking obligation—constitutes more than half of all reported cases of elder abuse. It can be intentional or unintentional, based on factors such as ignorance or denial that an elderly charge needs as much care as he or she does.
This involves the unauthorized use of an elderly person’s funds or property, either by a caregiver or an outside scam artist.
An unscrupulous caregiver might:
Typical rackets that target elders include:
Carried out by unethical doctors, nurses, hospital personnel, and other professional care providers, examples of healthcare fraud and abuse regarding elders include:
Our experienced private investigators will initiate thorough background checks on any and all persons that come into regular contact with your elderly loved ones in conducting our background investigations. Most healthcare providers only go through a basic criminal history search. We go well beyond, making it a priority to thoroughly search all available civil and criminal records in our background investigations. Most importantly, these background investigations are done nationally and include all states that these individuals resided in.
In addition, our private investigators regularly conduct field investigations. We contact and interview past employers and elderly persons that were cared for by these individuals. If needed, we also contact the family of the elderly to obtain additional facts.
Our experienced private investigators conduct welfare checks. We will go onsite, unannounced and announced, to check on your elderly loved ones. We will make sure that they are doing well and are being cared for properly.
If we find any issues, we will work promptly by contacting you immediately and discussing options.
Our experienced Private Investigators and Certified Fraud Examiners can monitor, uncover, and recover all financial crimes. If financial abuse of your elderly loved ones is suspected, we can initiate an asset investigation to uncover who gained financially from this fraud.
In addition, our private investigators will travel onsite and document all property in your loved ones home. Once documented, we catalog all the property should we need to identify any stolen property in the future.
Our experienced private investigators can initiate surveillance around your elderly loved ones and their caregivers. With discreet surveillance, we can ascertain if is there is any evidence of neglect or abuse.
In addition, we can discreetly place hidden cameras inside the home to determine the living conditions and if there are any signs of neglect or abuse.