Quantifying risk of financial incapacity and financial exploitation in community-dwelling older adults: utility of a scoring system for the lichtenberg financial decision making rating scale.

CONCLUSIONS: Analyses supported the conceptual link between decision making deficits and risk for exploitation, and supported the use of the risk-scoring system in a community-based population.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: This study adds to the empirical evidence supporting the use of the rating scale as a clinical tool assessing risk for financial decisional impairment and/or financial exploitation.
PMID: 29883276 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Gerontologist - June 9, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Clin Gerontol Source Type: research