[Webinar] Beyond the Financial Loss: Mental Health Impacts of Fraud in Older Adults

Webinar Details: Dec 1, at 10am PT

Presenter: Claire Checkland (Executive Director, Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH))

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Financial fraud affecting older adults is recognized as a significant and growing issue, yet it is often understood and addressed primarily through financial or legal lenses. This session will discuss mental health impacts of financial fraud and scams in later life. 

Fraud often exploits normal human processes such as trust, attachment, hope, and decision-making under stress. Its impacts can include shame, anxiety, depression, loss of confidence, and social withdrawal. Fear of scams and fraud may also affect mental wellbeing, contributing to anxiety, hypervigilance, and withdrawal from social or financial activities.

This webinar will introduce two new practical resources developed by the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health, one designed to support older adults affected by fraud, and another to help service providers respond in compassionate, non-stigmatizing, and supportive ways. 

Participants will explore approaches that reduce stigma, victim blaming, and self-blame, while supporting recovery in ways that preserve dignity, autonomy, confidence, and hope.

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B.C. has adopted Pacific time (PCT), permanent year-round daylight saving time and our clocks will no longer need to be adjusted on Nov 1. Pacific time operates at seven hours behind co-ordinated universal time (UTC-7), matching the current offset used during daylight saving time. 

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