LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY

Success Stories

Keeping Legal Rights, Lives Intact
From saving the roof over one client’s head to extracting someone from a suspicious prepaid-funeral plan, LCE is there to help low-income, older residents of Washington, D.C. The agency also helps to keep Medicare fraud in check. Read about how LCE has made a difference.

How You Can Help

Support AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly

Join companies and citizens across the country in financially supporting LCE to help the agency carry out its work. We are a 501(c)(3) corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia. Your contributions are tax deductible.

Get Involved With LCE!

Volunteers are trained to support LCE programs. You can be any age and have almost any type of career. But to volunteer, we need you to commit at least one day (five hours or more) a week, for at least a three-month period of time.

From The Online Community

Group: Friends of LCE

Group: LCE

Since 1975, AARP’s LCE has championed the rights and dignity of Washington, D.C.’s older, low-income residents. Join the group to talk about how people are empowering, defending, and protecting the rights of aging Washingtonians.

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The AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly provides free legal services and advocacy for Washington, D.C. residents age 60 and older. LCE serves as the city’s long-term-care ombudsman and operates initiatives such as training non-lawyers to help older residents with legal matters.

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The Law: Mistakenly Signing Away Your Home

The Case: Can a homeowner who mistakenly signed away her home get it back?

LCE Annual Report Cover

LCE Annual Report

Find out about the LCE’s various ventures, including the Volunteer Lawyers Project and Housing Attorney Advocacy. Learn more about the agency’s stellar performance.

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