Welcome to ACE

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?

  • Newsletter, Fall 2009 (Download PDF)
  • Submission to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care: Initial Regulation to the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 - June 2009 (Download PDF)
  • ACE’s Research Report to the Law Commission of Ontario – Congregate Living and the Law as it Affects Older Adults (Download PDF)
  • First Available Bed Policies & Discharge to a Long-Term Care Home from Hospital (Download PDF)
These documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these publications. [Free Download]. If you are using a visual reader and cannot read PDF documents, please contact ACE for a hard copy of the document.