The 89-year-old woman was conned into handing over tens of thousands of dollars in a tree pruning scam. 9News
All up, Joyce paid out $69,469 for very little work to actually be done.
Joyce said the whole incident has made her angry, adding, "Maybe I'm naive, I don't know, but the thing is I haven't got a chainsaw and wouldn't know how to handle it if I got the thing.""The most noticeable thing about her dementia at the moment would be her short term memory loss."
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