PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A McAllen nonprofit organization and Adult Protective Services came together in Pharr on Thursday for an event aimed at helping the community fight against elder financial abuse.

Silver Ribbon Community Partners and APS hosted the Elder Issues: Financial Exploitation Conference as part of Financial Exploitation Awareness Month.

The conference provided knowledge and tools to protect elders from financial exploitation.

"Our common cases look like family members using the resources of the elderly individual for their own personal benefit and gain," said Ann Cortez, District Director for Adult Protective Services. "Oftentimes, elderly have a constant source of income, so the known perpetrator will know that every month they're going to get this amount of money

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