In June 2011, the MetLife Mature Market Institute, in collaboration with the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (“NCPEA”) and the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, released The MetLife Study of Elder Financial Abuse: Crimes of Occasion, Desperation and Predation Against America’s Elders (hereafter referred to as the “2011 MetLife Study”).  The 2011 MetLife Study analyzed data collected during the period from April through June 2010.  It was designed to update a previous study released by MetLife in 2009, Broken Trust: Elders, Family and Finances (hereinafter referred to as the “2009 MetLife Study”), which analyzed data collected from April through June 2008.

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