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Financial Abuse of Senior Citizens

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Old age becomes a curse to many and the challenges that one faces at as vulnerable a time as this are many. The United Nations Organisation celebrated 15 June as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day because the number of older people is predicted to increase exponentially between 2015 and 2030, more so in developing countries. Along with this trend, there will be a rise in abuse of older persons. To check this violation of human rights, the UNO seeks to draw attention to this problem, which is essentially a global issue. The theme for 2017 is ‘Understand and End Financial Abuse of Older People: A Human Rights Issue’ and the matter was discussed particularly with regard to elderly people in Goa, at the Friday Balcão in Mapusa. In the past, there have been incidences of elderly parents being divested of their property through forged signatures or using chicanery to obtain valid signatures and then dumping them in old age homes. Elderly individuals have been hoodwinked in the same way by trust