Consumer Protection and the Elderly

aoa.gov, Mar 23, 2006

The advent of telecommunications has increased public interest in government intervention and protection against unscrupulous business practices. Older adults are thought to be particularly vulnerable to solicitation schemes through the mail and telephone, as they were in previous decades to door-to-door salesmen and are feared to be in the near future to the Internet.

Aging advocacy organizations are urging Federal agencies and Congress to support greater public awareness of popular scams and greater enforcement of existing laws restricting prohibited practices. Sites on this page represent both broad-based consumer groups and consumer protection agencies and those focused primarily on aging issues such as Medicare fraud and abuse.