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If you have older clients who are receiving long-term care (LTC) services, or clients with older loved ones receiving LTC services, here's a new warning to give them: Strangers who come into LTC facilities and collect samples of the clients' or residents' DNA may be up to no good.
Officials at the Nebraska Department of Insurance put out a warning about possible DNA collection con artists in a notice issued last week.
Nebraska department officials said in the notice that they and colleagues at the Nebraska Senior Health Insurance Information Program have received multiple reports of groups going to nursing homes, assisted living facilities and senior centers.
The groups are offering to collect material for DNA testing by swabbing the insides of older people's cheeks.
The groups say they will use the cheek swab samples to check the residents' DNA for signs of cancer, officials say in the notice.
