Medication-Aware Financial Exploitation Detection for Alzheimer's Patients Using Edge-Aware Interaction Risk Modeling
For Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers, this work addresses financial exploitation detection by incorporating clinical context, but the improvement is incremental and limited to specific vulnerability windows.
A medication-aware framework synchronizing medication adherence with transaction monitoring improved recall during medication-induced vulnerability windows from 0.7442 to 0.9070 for detecting cognitively risky financial events in Alzheimer's patients, though the financial-only baseline achieved the highest global F1-score of 0.5000.
Financial exploitation is a growing concern for people with Alzheimer's disease, especially during periods of reduced cognitive stability. Conventional fraud detection systems usually rely on financial behavior alone and ignore clinically relevant factors that may alter vulnerability. This paper proposes a medication-aware framework that synchronizes medication adherence with transaction-level monitoring to improve detection of cognitively risky financial events. A hybrid simulation dataset was constructed for 180 patients across 45 days, producing 8,100 medication records and 30,855 transactions. The framework evaluates amount anomaly, vendor novelty, transaction frequency, time deviation, and medication adherence through financial-only, additive medication-aware, and interaction-aware logistic models. Results show that the financial-only baseline obtained the highest global F1-score of 0.5000, but the interaction-aware model improved recall during medication-induced vulnerability windows from 0.7442 to 0.9070 and achieved the highest average precision for ranked high-risk cases. The findings suggest that medication adherence is most useful as a contextual modifier of financial risk rather than as an isolated predictor.