Stealing Joy: A True Story of Alzheimer's, Elder Abuse, and Fraud

A devastating crime hits home in The Stealing of Joy.

From best-selling author Glynnis Walker Anderson, PhD, comes the emotional true story of how her family was torn apart by the crime of the twenty-first century-elder fraud.

Anderson's mother is suffering from Alzheimer's when she falls victim to a group of women, including a neighbor, a supermarket clerk, and a lawyer, that takes everything from her.

After managing to get legal guardianship due to the courtroom prowess and suppression of evidence by the group's lawyer member, the criminals manage to empty the elderly woman's bank accounts, change her will, and isolate her from the rest of her family. A month later, Anderson's mother winds up in the hospital, where the group insists she submit to a surgery that five different doctors warn will likely kill her.

Robbed of the chance to say good-bye to the mother she loved, Anderson uses her background as an investigative journalist in an attempt to expose the fraud and reinstate her mother's original will.

The Stealing of Joy serves as a potent warning for all those whose elderly loved ones may be at risk and offers guidance on how to fight against elder fraud.

Author: Glynnis Walker Anderson
Publisher: New Horizon Press
Published: 12/11/2014
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780692252307

About the Author

Glynnis Walker Anderson, PhD, is the best-selling author of eight books and an investigative journalist who has been featured as a guest expert on television shows such as Oprah and Today, and in magazines like People and Cosmopolitan.

Anderson has also hosted a radio talk show for more than fifteen years, through which she sheds light on personal issues and gives voice to otherwise voiceless victims. Her own family's tragic experience with an elder fraud scheme inspired her to write her latest book, The Stealing of Joy.

Anderson currently resides in Chicago.

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