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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? 

• See our Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter 
• Statement from CARP and ACE on the Announcement to Establish a Public Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Elizabeth Wettlaufer Case - June 26, 2017
• Press Release: CARP and ACE Send Open Letter to Ontario Premier Demanding Public Inquiry - June 26, 2017
• ACE and CARP send an open letter to Ontario Premier demanding a Public Inquiry: Demand for Public Inquiry into Wettlaufer Murders and Long-Term Care - June 26, 2017
• ACE made submissions on the Rental Fairness Act, 2017 before the Standing Commitee on General Government on May 10, 2017
• 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.

ACE in the News

• Ottawa Citizen - City's Care homes found non-compliant more than 200 times in five years - August 17, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - Ontario issues rare order to Ottawa to improve failing long-term care homes - August 15, 2017
• CityNews - Video: Senior dies after getting wedged between bed rail and mattress - August 9, 2017 
• CBC Radio Ottawa Morning - Wettlaufer Inquiry - August 3, 2017
• CTV News - Video: Wettlaufer murders prompt inquiry into long term care - August 1, 2017
• CityNews - Video: Wettlaufer inquiry will examine treatment at long term care homes - August 1, 2017
• CBC News - Nursing home where Wettlaufer killed still not allowed to take new residents - July 19, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - After recent incidents, city working on action plan to improve long-term care - July 12, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - No trespass orders given to family members after complaining about Ottawa long-term care home - July 12, 2017
• CBC News - Elder Abuse: What did you see? - July 11, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - Long-Term Care inspection reports: 'What we know is the tip of the iceberg' - July 6, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - Ottawa long-term care home has been site of other instances of abuse, patient neglect - July 6, 2017
• Ottawa Citizen - Elder abuse case: personal support workers need governing body, group says - July 4, 2017
• Windsor Star - Woman Protests long-term care home's move to put all residents on regular diets - June 28, 2017
• Toronto Star - Wettlaufer inquiry must take broad look at problems in nursing homes: NDP leader - June 28, 2017
• CBC - Province Calls Public Inquiry into Long-Term Care Homes - June 26, 2017
• CityNews - Ontario to Call Public Inquiry into Wettlaufer Nursing Home Murders - June 26, 2017
• London Free Press - Public Inquiry Announced to Investigate Wettlaufer Murders that took place between 2007 and 2014 - June 26, 2017
• ZoomerRadio - Jane Meadus discusses Demand for Public Inquiry into Wettlaufer Murders - June 26, 2017
• 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 - 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

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