The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly has scheduled intake days on

 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Dial 1-855-598-2656 or 416-598-2656 to reach us. 

The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly is a community based legal clinic for low income senior citizens. ACE is managed by a volunteer board of directors at least half of whom are seniors. ACE is funded through Legal Aid Ontario and is the first legal clinic in Canada to specialize in the legal problems of seniors.

ACE provides direct legal services to low-income seniors, public legal education, and engages in law reform activities. ACE services and activities are in relation to areas of law of special importance to the seniors' population. 

What's New? 

• ACE is closed to intake on Friday, June 2, 2017, due to computer maintenance.
• Law Commission of Ontario releases ACE co-authored research paper: Health care consent, advance care planning, and goals of care practice tools: The challenge to get it right
• See ACE's Fall/Winter 2016 Newsletter
• Jane Meadus of ACE made submissions on Bill 41, the Patients First Act before the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly.
• Jane Meadus of our office is co-chairing Advising the Elderly Client: the 2016 Practical Guide for Legal Professionals organized by Osgoode Professional Development  
• See ACE's comments on the Draft Supportive Housing Policy Framework
• ACE has made comments on the Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy Update – Proposals to Encourage Small Landlords to Provide Rental Housing
• Please join us in congratulating Jane Meadus of ACE for her Osgoode Professional Development Award for Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Legal Education
• ACE has published its Spring/Summer 2016 Newsletter 
• ACE has made comments on the Law Commission of Ontario's Interim Report on Legal Capacity, Decision-Making and Guardianship
• See ACE's Submissions to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 148 - Protection of Vulnerable Seniors in the Community Act, 2015
• ACE is now on twitter! #acelawyers

ACE in the News

• Woodstock Sentinel Review - Elizabeth Wettlaufer: Province suspends admissions at Caressant Care in Woodstock where ex-nurse faces murder and attempted murder charges - Jan. 27, 2017
• Toronto Star - Communication is key to improving struggling senior care system: Editorial -  Jan. 27, 2017
• CityNews.ca- Video: Waiting for a spot in long-term care and Video: What’s behind the hospital bed shortage - December 12, 2016
• London Free Press - Jeff Yurek says changes are needed so abuse by staff doesn't go undetected as it did for a year at the Mount Hope Centre for Long Term Care - December 8, 2016
• CBC News - Wettlaufer case a 'rare occurrence' and no reason to probe more nursing home deaths, doctor says - October 27, 2016
  • BBC News - Care home murders case leaves Woodstock, Ontario, reeling - October 27, 2016
    • The Current, CBC - Long-term care homes need better inspections, says seniors' advocate - October 26, 2016
    • MetroMorning, CBC - Nurse charged - October 26, 2016
    • London Free Press - Nursing Home Deaths: Jane Meadus says the case sounds alarms over the level of safeguards for nursing homes - October 26, 2016
    • Zoomer Radio - Wanda Morris & Jane Meadus – October 26, 2016
    • Reportca.net - Psychiatric, drug screening for nurses urged following murder charges - October 26, 2016
    • CTV - Ont. nurse faces eight counts of first-degree murder - October 25, 2016
    • CBC - Nursing home deaths - October 25, 2016
    • Globe and Mail - Former nurse stands accused of being one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers - October 25, 2016
• CityNews - Senior on trial for murder says spirit told him to beat up two women - October 18, 2016
• Toronto Star - Pharmacies pay millions in "bed fees" to Ontario nursing homes - October 17, 2016
• Toronto Star - Another chance at romance at west-end retirement home - September 20, 2016
• CityNews - Durham Region wants police checks on new residents entering seniors homes - September 16, 2016
• CBC News - Air conditioning should be required during heat waves, say advocates for homeless, elderly - August 15, 2016
• London Free Press - Marjorie Woolner’s family is suing St. Joseph’s Health Care in London, alleging negligence at its Mount Hope Centre in the 77-year-old woman’s death - July 24, 2016
• London Free Press - Health Ministry won't disclose which long-term care homes get full inspection - June 30, 2016
• Toronto Star - Government still lets nursing homes improperly drug seniors: Walkom - May 18, 2016
• Windsor Star - Daughters, son-in-law barred from seeing dying mother - May 18, 2016
• The Globe and Mail - Health-care Upselling: The Insidious Costs of Products for Seniors - March 17, 2016
• Kingston Whig-Standard - Uncomfortable Questions in Comforting Statistics - Editorial - November 26, 2015
• Toronto Star - Woman died in agony after bedsores neglected at high-end Oakville nursing home - September 16, 2015
• Toronto Star - Eviction a sad commentary - Letters to the Editor - December 24, 2014

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