SOLLA Conference 2016 review

The annual conference for the Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) held in October 2016 proved to be a thought-provoking and informative event. A number of speakers shared their views on the provision of care and support to those in later life.

One speaker in particular, Professor Keith Brown, spoke with passion about the increased prevalence of scams being played on vulnerable people in our society, many of whom are elderly and live alone. More needs to be done to tackle the ever increasing problem which is estimated to affect more than 3 million older people each year and can often deprive them of their life savings as well as causing anxiety, loss of dignity and other psychological issues.

Once drawn into a scam, many will end up on ‘suckers lists’ which are sold on amongst fraudsters and will frequently result in those on the lists being targeted repeatedly. National Trading Standards have obtained 15 such lists to date, de