Shannon Pawley, The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm Owner, provides information about elder abuse, how to spot it and ways to prevent it.

DECATUR, GA, September 23, 2024: Shannon Pawley, Owner of The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm, has posted a new article on the law firm’s website entitled “Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation: How to Spot the Signs and Take Action.” Ms. Pawley provides statistics, examples of, and typical perpetrators of elder abuse.

Pawley writes, “Elder Abuse, which the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention defines as, an intentional act or failure to act that causes or creates a risk of harm to an older adult (age 60 or older)” is rampant throughout the United States.” She continues, “According to the U.S, Department of Justice, at least 1 out of 10 adults over the age of 65 suffers from at least one type of abuse. The ways in which elders are abused are many and include physical and sexual abuse, psychological abuse, willful neglect and passive neglect, confinement, abandonment, and financial exploitation.”

Pawley notes, “The National Center on Elder Abuse and the National Institutes of Health report that elderly women are more likely to suffer from abuse than men.” She emphasizes, “Elderly Americans lose nearly $36.5 Billion every year because of financial abuse.”

According to Pawley, the perpetrators of elder abuse are typically close to the elder. She states that “the perpetrators of elder abuse include children, spouses, and other family members, as well as staff at nursing homes, assisted living, and other facilities. In addition,” she states, “there are criminals who call, text and email seniors posing as representatives of the IRS, utility companies, financial and other institutions. These criminals collect important information that gives them access to financial accounts and allows them to steal money and identities.”

The entire article can be read here: Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation: How to Spot the Signs and Take Action

About The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm

The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm was established to serve the legal needs of retiring citizens. The Firm focuses its entire practice on providing strategies to protect independence, privacy, assets and taxes from the government. Shannon Pawley has grown her law practice by providing excellent customer satisfaction with personalized wealth protection plans.

About Shannon M. Pawley, J.D., LL.M

As the owner of The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm, Shannon M. Pawley and her entire team share a passion which focuses on being able to serve the legal needs of retiring individuals. In our firm, WE BELIEVE that people should not have to lose everything they’ve worked a lifetime to earn and that every person is an individual who deserves respect and the highest quality of life possible, regardless of age or ability.  We also believe that privacy and protection are the keys to personal peace. Born and raised in the Tidewater area of Virginia to a tightknit family with strong military service roots, Shannon learned from an early age the value of hard work and the importance of social awareness to ensure you always leave a situation in a better place than how you entered it.  In her junior year of high school, Shannon served as U.S. House of Representatives Page during the 101^st United States Congressional Session in Washington, D.C.  This experience exposed her to numerous new cultures and worldly issues.  Walking away from her experience as a U.S. House of Representative Page, Shannon knew that she wanted to pursue legal studies and be able to assist others in obtaining the best results available in difficult situations.

Shannon earned her undergraduate degree at North Carolina Wesleyan College and pursued a law degree from Michigan State University College of Law.  After obtaining her law degree and becoming a licensed attorney in Michigan, she continued her educational pursuit by acquiring a LL.M. (Master of Law) in Taxation from Wayne State University. After moving to Georgia in 2018, Shannon obtained her Georgia law license and has enjoyed being able to pursue her desire of ensuring persons are able to age with dignity, grace and independence.