Last month the LAE office, friends and family celebrated the life of our long-time, stalwart LAE volunteer Tom Tallman, who passed away at the end of January. Tom was a five-days-a-week volunteer at LAE for nearly 30 years. His crusty command of the reception desk was absolute – he was ...

In July of this year, the LAE-FAVU Collaboration received the 2021 Aging Achievement Award from the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). This project is a collaboration between the Adult Protective Service’s Financial Abuse Virtual Unit (FAVU) and LAE to better meet the needs of older adults experiencing …

The purpose of our work at Legal Assistance to the Elderly (LAE) is to support and protect San Francisco’s seniors. They make and have made our city all that it is, and we are brokenhearted and outraged at the violence targeting our Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) elders. Our AAPI elders are an …

We are outraged by of the death of George Floyd and systematic abuse that has led to this national call to action. We are inspired by the voices in the streets. In our work we see the effects of state violence and the epidemic incarceration of black America, and how ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health has declared a Local Health Emergency regarding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The current recommendations from the Department of Public Health call for vulnerable populations to avoid all gatherings of 10 people or more. Vulnerable populations include: people 60 years old and older ...