Elderly people: The Polizia di Stato tips

Handbooks, tips, information, and prevention activities: there are several initiatives targeted at elderly people, specially in summer, during the holiday season, when elderly people are often left alone.

Ministers, questure, municipalities, provinces, and private corporations all try hard not to make elderly people feel abandoned and help them defend themselves against frauds and cheats. Sophisticated cheats are carried out, for example, by fake workers or Inps (National Institute of Social Insurance) employees, fake police agents or doctors belonging to non-existent humanitarian organizations who could deceive also the most careful people.