alt Hacker News> My parents are at an age where they fall for things.
If they're falling for things that they didn't used to fall for, that's sounds more like dementia than age.
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fn-mote • yesterday at 11:30 PM
There’s a long way between perfectly functioning and dementia. I want to say that I hope you never find out, but the twilight of life is tough either way.
jolmg • yesterday at 11:37 PM
"Being at an age" can include having age-related illnesses.
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Or maybe there are more things using the same tactics / scammer's reach keeps increasing.
My parents "fell" for fundamentalism early (as kids - raised in it), for televangelists in their 40s, and Fox News in their 70s/80s. Fox News so recently only because they didn't get it very often until about 10 years ago when they moved into a retirement home (didn't have cable before that).