Half a million new cases of Alzheimer’s are diagnosed each year in the US and nearly 6 million Americans currently live with the disease. Compounding this tragedy is the fact that every person with Alzheimer’s or dementia is a potential victim of inheritance-related exploitation.

The two scourges go hand in hand, each year leading to tens of thousands of lawsuits and billions of dollars in fraud, lost inheritance and disinheritance.

 SuperLawyer® Michael Hackard, the ​author of Alzheimer’s, Widowed Stepmothers and Estate Crimes, joins Mark Alyn for a look at this growing problem.