The Parent Protection Checkup
Answer twelve questions about a parent's setup and get a plan ordered by what stops the most common scams first. People over sixty file hundreds of thousands of fraud reports a year, and the callers now sound exactly like family. Most of the defense costs nothing.
The plan, in order
Ranked by protection per hour of effort. The first three stop the scams that take the most money.
Already in place
A NOTE FROM ORDERED
Everything above can be done on a weekend visit, and this page is the whole list. If the distance is long, the patience is short, or you would rather it were simply handled, Ordered does this as one contained engagement called Looking After Mom and Dad: the freezes, the phone, the accounts, the family protocol, set up with your parent kindly and without condescension, and written up so the whole family knows how it works.
This page is protective guidance, and every family is different. Where memory or capacity is declining, loop in their doctor and an elder-law attorney; where money has already moved, call the bank first and then local police. None of it is legal or medical advice.