Charles E. Wallace Jr. Author of "The Caregiver's Game: Unraveling Financial Deceit in the Shadows of Dementia"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Charles "Chip" E. Wallace Jr. as guest to the show.
About Charles "Chip" E. Wallace Jr.:
Charles E. Wallace Jr. spent fifteen years in banking and finance before spending five more investigating the systematic financial exploitation of his mother by her live-in caregiver. What began as unexplained credit card charges evolved into a forensic investigation spanning 6,000 emails, FOIA requests, banking records, and psychiatric evidence — uncovering a pattern of fraud that included credit card cycling, annuity manipulation, and estate plan changes executed while his mother lacked legal capacity.
His book, The Caregiver's Game: Unraveling Financial Deceit in the Shadows of Dementia, documents not just what happened but how it happened — the specific mechanisms a predatory caregiver used to gain control, redirect assets, and avoid detection across multiple institutions that should have caught it. Literary Titan awarded it a Gold distinction, calling it essential reading for anyone concerned about the safety of aging loved ones.
Charles brings a rare combination to this conversation — the analytical background of a finance professional, the persistence of a self-taught investigator, and the perspective of a family member who learned too late what the warning signs actually looked like. His goal is to make sure home care professionals and families recognize those signs before the damage is done.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.8 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.1 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome Charles E. Wallace Jr., |
| 0:44.5 | also known as Chip. Welcome. How are you, Chip? Hi, good. Thank you. Well, I introduced you as an author. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm going to introduce your book next. |
| 0:55.0 | You've written this phenomenal book, The Caregivers Game to Unravelling Financial Deceit |
| 1:00.2 | in the Shadows of Dementia. |
| 1:03.1 | That's a big title, very powerful title. |
| 1:05.8 | Why don't you start by introducing your book in a little more detail to our viewers and listeners? |
| 1:10.6 | Sure. The book covers the last few years of my mother's life. She had dementia and it |
| 1:15.6 | covers from 2017 through early 22 and walks through how she hired a caregiver and what |
| 1:22.8 | that caregiver did as far as basically manipulating and unduly influencing her into creating a new will and doing some |
| 1:32.3 | other activities and basically emptying out my mother's account and property that the kids me and my |
| 1:41.5 | siblings all live far away I was the closest at 600 miles. |
| 1:44.8 | And so we relied on her fiduciaries, her CPA, power of attorney, her broker, all who had been around her for 30 years. |
| 1:53.2 | We figured, okay, well, there's a safety net. |
| 1:55.6 | And so this covers kind of the day-to-day activities of what occurred and how it occurred up through and beyond my |
| 2:03.4 | mother's life in through the probate process. |
| 2:07.7 | Yeah. |
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