The Caregiver’s Game
Unraveling Financial Deceit in the Shadows of Dementia
A true story of how a serial predator exploited a mother with dementia and the son who uncovered it all.
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Endorsements
“Instructive to families and professionals alike.”— Dr. Peter Lichtenberg, Director, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
“A grief-soaked memoir and a warning label at the same time… He refuses to polish his mother into a saint. She’s vain, sharp, often unkind, and the book leans into that. That honesty made the whole thing feel more trustworthy.”— Literary Titan (5-star review)
“What Charles uncovered was not just fraud. It was a blueprint for how predators exploit the gaps in every system designed to protect the elderly.”— Holly Larson, LinkedIn
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The Story
In 2018, a professional caregiver walked into the life of a 90-year-old woman living alone with dementia in Dallas. Over the next four years, she isolated her from family, took control of her finances, and ran 3,055 transactions through her accounts — nearly $1 million.
Fraud alerts fired. Banks did nothing. Adult Protective Services investigated and closed the case. She had done it before — same playbook, same type of victim, a decade earlier.
Charles Wallace, her son, spent 15 years in banking and finance. After his mother’s death, he reconstructed the entire exploitation and discovered the caregiver may have faked her own death to escape prosecution.
The Caregiver’s Game is the story he never wanted to write — and the warning every family needs to read.