Background: Financial abuse of elders is an under acknowledged problem and professionals’ judgements
contribute to both the prevalence of abuse and the ability to prevent and intervene. In the absence of a definitive
“gold standard” for the judgement, it is desirable to try and bring novice professionals’ judgemental risk thresholds
to the level of competent professionals as quickly and effectively as possible. This study aimed to test if a training
intervention was able to bring novices’ risk thresholds for financial abuse in line with expert opinion.