Introduction
While Artificial intelligence (AI) has increased productivity and innovation, it has amplified the challenges in the elder law landscape. Seniors have become the target of scams and other crimes involving AI. Older Canadians are particularly susceptible to these fraud schemes as AI becomes more sophisticated.
For elder law practitioners, understanding how AI is reshaping financial abuse, undue influence, and fraud is essential, not only for litigation and estate disputes, but also for planning and client education.
Together, rising trends in elder abuse; an aging population; the baby-boomer-wealth-transfer; and increasingly sophisticated AI, all present elder law practitioners with a new set of challenges they must be aware of in assisting elderly clients in today’s technological landscape.