The Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition
All Home Care Matters
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome the team behind the Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition.
About Dr. Eric Chess:
Dr. Chess has a background as a practicing physician and lawyer. Currently, he is a clinical professor at the University of Denver with a focus on prevention, well-being and financial decision-making. He founded and continues to direct the Paul Freeman Financial Security Program at the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging and leads the Colorado Older Adult Financial Justice Coalition. Additionally, Dr. Chess serves as an adjunct professor for both the Daniels College of Business and the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.
About Mark Fetterhoff:
Mark Fetterhoff is the Program Manager for AARP ElderWatch, a statewide partnership between AARP and the Colorado Attorney General’s office to educate older Coloradans about fraud and financial literacy. He has worked on education and outreach to older adults for over 15 years. Mark currently works with a crew of dedicated volunteers to address thousands of inquiries each month about fraud, scams and financial exploitation as part of AARP’s fraud helplines.
About Bettina Morrow:
Bettina is the Interim Program Director for Colorado Adult Protective Services. With over 20 years of international experience, Bettina started her career in Australia before moving to the UK, where she practiced social work for 9 years, eventually leading to her move to the U.S. Bettina has spent the last 16 years working with at-risk and vulnerable adults with specific expertise in elder abuse, dementia, and guardianship. Bettina has been a strong advocate and active contributor in developing positive practices changes pertaining to at-risk adults. This includes her role as a steering committee member for the Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition. Bettina has obtained a Bachelor of Social Work, a Masters in Dementia, and is a Nationally Certified Guardian.
About The Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition:
The newly formed Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition unites local and state agencies from diverse fields, including law enforcement, human and adult protective services, financial regulation, the financial services industry, and elder advocacy groups. This coalition aims to address the complex issue of financial fraud targeting older adults by evaluating the problem and developing practical prevention strategies. By bringing together a multidisciplinary group of dedicated stakeholders, the Coalition underscores its commitment to combating elder financial fraud and abuse through prevention and intervention efforts.
Connect with The Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition:
Official Website:
https://financialsecurityprogram.org/coalition/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with |
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| 0:36.1 | here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.0 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome the team behind |
| 0:42.7 | the Colorado Older Adults Financial Justice Coalition. Welcome to All Home Care Matters. I am |
| 0:49.7 | honored to welcome our guest, Dr. Eric Chess, he is the director of the Paul Freeman Financial Security Program |
| 0:55.9 | at the University of Denver, along with Mark Federhoff. He's the program manager for Elder Watch at the |
| 1:02.7 | AARP and our good friend, Bettina Morrow, the Associate Director of Adult Protective Services. Welcome. |
| 1:09.9 | Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having us. Welcome. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:12.6 | Thanks for having us. Our pleasure. Eric, I want to start with you, sir. I'm going to call you Eric, or do you prefer Dr. Chess? |
| 1:20.6 | Preferer Eric. Yeah. Thanks. You're welcome. So the background from the medical legal perspective on connections between financial decision |
| 1:29.3 | making and health and well-being, why is that so crucial for people to understand and be aware of? |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah, it's at the heart of what I do and it's why I'm here now at the university. |
| 1:40.3 | Prior to being here, I was in clinical practice in internal medicine, and both on the |
| 1:47.0 | inpatient side as an internist and on the outpatient side, seeing these connections between |
| 1:53.8 | finances and health struck me for years. And so on the one hand, the amount of stress and anxiety and even depression that sometimes |
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