{
  "id": 15133399,
  "title": "Elderly Singaporean with dementia nearly falls for insurance scam twice, wife intervenes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/elderly-singaporean-with-dementia-nearly-falls-for-insurance-scam",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-15T13:16:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Independent Singapore",
    "slug": "the-independent-singapore",
    "url": "https://theindependent.sg/elderly-singaporean-with-dementia-nearly-falls-for-insurance-scam-twice-wife-intervenes"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "SINGAPORE: A man with dementia was targeted by scammers twice within a year, as reported by his wife, who was smart enough to catch the crime. Case details revealed that the man received two suspicious calls involving life insurance policies within a year. As shared by his 70-year-old wife, she claimed that at the beginning of the year, her husband received a call asking him to pay insurance…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}