Arming the Elderly: A Self-Defense Guide for Senior Citizens
A growing number of Americans are aged 65 and over. Whether you are in this age group or have a parent or grandparent that is, it is important to prepared for threats.
Seniors are disproportionately victimized compared to other age groups. Many crimes against seniors involve some sort of theft. Seniors are more vulnerable to property crimes, especially burglary and vehicle thefts. You might be surprised to learn that more than fourteen percent of seniors have experienced physical, psychological or sexual abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation within the last year. Malicious actors view seniors as an easy target. Because of this — every senior citizen should have the tools they need to protect themselves or their property and have the skills necessary to neutralize a threat.
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Ammodotcom? I think that the majority of these crooks who target senior citizens do so over the telephone. I'm always coming across horror stories about elderly people being scammed out of their entire life savings by a boiler room operation that tricks them into giving their social security number and other private information over the telephone.
As our president is a senior citizen himself, he needs to push for a law that would place evictions against senior citizens in moratorium until this problem can be remedied somehow. Our president and our Congress also need to come down hard on all these consumer credit bureaus who make elderly people's lives miserable by not giving them a break on removing a blemish on their credit bureau reports before the 7-year statute of limitations is satisfied.