Get Money Smart as an Older Adult!

Welcome to Money Smart for Older Adults. By taking this module, you’ll learn important points to consider in planning for a more secure financial future, including how to guard against identity theft and other forms of financial exploitation, as well as how to prepare financially for unexpected life events, and disasters.

Financial exploitation has been called “the crime of the 21st century” with one study suggesting that older Americans lost at least $2.9 billion to financial exploitation in 2010 by a broad spectrum of perpetrators, including persons they know and trust, as well as strangers. Cognitive impairment diminishes the ability of some older adults to make financial decisions and to detect frauds and scams.