Elder Protection vs. Elder Free Will

Golden Opportunities is a series of articles from The New York Times examining how individuals, businesses and investors seek to profit from the soaring number of older Americans in ways helpful and harmful. The most recent column in the series starts as follows:

• Eight years ago, when Robert J. Pyle was 73 years old, he had about $500,000 in the bank and owned a house in Northern California worth about $650,000. He was looking forward to a comfortable retirement. Today, at 81, he has lost everything. Mr. Pyle, a retired aerospace engineer, now lives in his stepdaughter’s tiny, mountainside home in a room not much larger than his bed.

For more on what happened to Mr. Pyle, see Shielding Money Clashes With Elders’ Free Will.

Go here for links to all of the columns in Golden Opportunities - A Series From The New York Times.

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