Breaking the silence on financial abuse of elders


TWO years ago, I interviewed a widow in her 80s who was abandoned by her son.

He promised to take care of her after he took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of her four-room flat in Singapore. But he disappeared after checking her into a hospital for a cataract operation.

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