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The Age: Police move on elder abuse
15 June 2021
With her health and mobility in decline, Gladys sold her home and moved into a granny flat behind her son’s house, where he and the grandchildren were a few steps away.
After a fall, Gladys moved to a nursing home to recover and left her debit card, PIN and access to bank statements with her son to pay her bills.
Only when a friend took Gladys to the bank did she discover the breach of trust: her son had withdrawn thousands of dollars and her account was empty.
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