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Social dissatisfaction predicts vulnerability to financial exploitation in older adults<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC led the first study linking interpersonal problems to financial vulnerability over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n

\n Zara Abrams<\/span>\n \n May 26, 2022<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Researchers who study elder abuse have long believed that when older adults face loneliness or relationship problems, they are more likely to fall victim to monetary scams and exploitation. But the field has only studied the link retrospectively, looking back in time to see whether a connection exists, and has yet to establish a firm link.<\/p>\n

Now, a team of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has collected longitudinal data showing that an increase in interpersonal dysfunction, defined as loneliness or dissatisfaction with relationships, predicts subsequent vulnerability to financial exploitation. The results were just published in the journal Aging & Mental Health<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo our knowledge, this is the first study showing that the quality of older adults\u2019 interpersonal relationships has an impact on their financial vulnerability at a later time,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author, Duke Han, PhD<\/a>, director of neuropsychology in the Department of Family Medicine and a professor of family medicine, neurology, psychology and gerontology\u00a0at the Keck School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

The findings underscore that social connectedness, which is already known to enhance physical health and psychological wellbeing among older adults, may also be a key protector against financial abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study points to a specific factor\u2014social functioning\u2014that could allow us to predict, and ultimately prevent, vulnerability to financial exploitation before it happens,\u201d said Aaron Lim, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Han\u2019s research lab and first author of the study.<\/p>\n

A spike in vulnerability<\/strong><\/p>\n

The participants included 26 adults, aged 50 and older, with an average age of 65. At the beginning of the study, researchers evaluated each participant\u2019s overall health, cognitive functioning, depression and anxiety symptoms and prior history of financial exploitation and controlled for these factors in their statistical analyses.<\/p>\n

Then, for six months, the researchers collected data at two-week intervals. They measured each participant\u2019s interpersonal dysfunction by asking how frequently they had argued with someone, felt rejected, felt lonely, wished their relationships were better and wished they had more friends. They also assessed participants\u2019 vulnerability to financial exploitation during the past two weeks with questions such as \u201chow confident are you in making big financial decisions?\u201d and \u201chow often has someone talked you into a decision to spend or donate money that you did not initially want to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a person reported a spike in problems within their social circle or increased feelings of loneliness, we were much more likely to see a corresponding spike in their psychological vulnerability to being financially exploited two weeks later,\u201d Lim said.<\/p>\n

In addition to the effects within individuals, there was also a significant effect between participants: Those who had higher interpersonal dysfunction compared to other participants tended to report greater vulnerability to financial exploitation.<\/p>\n

Preventing exploitation<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study\u2019s results offer insight into how to counteract common financial scams that target older adults, including phishing emails, investment schemes and the \u201cgrandparent scam,\u201d where an older adult receives a call from someone about a grandchild in urgent need of money.<\/p>\n

At the individual level, Lim suggests that people watch for social upsets in their parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 lives\u2014such as the death of a close friend or an argument with a family member\u2014as risk factors for financial vulnerability in the immediate future. At the community level, organizations that support seniors can also provide additional opportunities for social connection.<\/p>\n

Because the study\u2019s sample was small, the results need to be replicated in larger and more diverse samples, Han said. The research team also plans to build on the findings with a follow-up study to investigate the connection between social dysfunction and actual incidents of financial exploitation, not just vulnerability.<\/p>\n

About this study<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to Han and Lim, the study\u2019s other authors are Laura Mosqueda and Annie L. Nguyen from the Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Tyler B. Mason from the Department of Population and Public Health Science, Keck School of Medicine of USC; Laura Fenton from the Department of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Gali H. Weissberger from the Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University; and Peter Lichtenberg from the Department of Psychology, Wayne State University.<\/p>\n

This work was supported by the National Institute on Aging [1RF1AG068166, T32AG000037, K01AG064986] and the Elder Justice Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":4708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,169,80,20],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-family-medicine","tag-latest","tag-neurology","tag-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSocial dissatisfaction predicts vulnerability to financial exploitation in older adults<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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