Advocates for the elderly are closely watching the court case over philanthropist Brooke Astor’s estate set to open.
Astor’s son Anthony Marshall and his lawyer, Francis Morrissey, begin trial for allegedly trying to plunder her $200 million estate while she suffered from dementia. Expected to expose rifts within the iconic New York family, others hope the case will shed light on the little-known problem of elder abuse.
Astor’s son Anthony Marshall and his lawyer, Francis Morrissey, begin trial for allegedly trying to plunder her $200 million estate while she suffered from dementia. Expected to expose rifts within the iconic New York family, others hope the case will shed light on the little-known problem of elder abuse.
The case provides “an opportunity to say who is the face of the elder abuse,” noted Joy Solomon, director of the Weinberg Center, an elder abuse shelter in the Bronx. “Often it’s not someone walking into a police station with a black eye. Sometimes it’s after the bruise is gone. Sometimes it’s financial abuse.”
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Guardianship abuse is elder abuse of the worst kind.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see the Astor case back in the news. Hopefully, it will educate people who have never heard of guardianship.
Most often it IS financial abuse via probate estate and guardianship cases all are based on trust and character. And, I say read the newspapers for a reality check.
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