Effort launched to protect seniors and disabled
11/13/2008
By Vincent T. Davis - Express-News
Adult Protective Services is joining participating banks across the state to educate employees and customers about financial exploitation of seniors and people with disabilities.
The campaign, titled “It's Everyone's Business,” offers tips, posters and brochures about how to detect financial exploitation and how residents can protect themselves from being taken advantage of.
Financial agencies across the state will hang posters and teach employees to detect signs of exploitation that include sudden changes in bank accounts, adding names to a senior's or disabled person's bank signature card and sudden appearance of relatives previously not involved with transactions.
The San Antonio Region 8 office launched the campaign recently with a news conference at the Department of Family and Protective Services headquarters at 3635 S.E. Military Drive. Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus and representatives from Frost Bank attended the event.
Abridged
SOURCE: San Antonio Express - TX,USA
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