To illuminate our work, SeniorLAW Center’s Director of Victim Services, Brendan Corbalis, Esq., shares how our team plans to honor WEAAD on June 15th and every day:

“SeniorLAW Center is Pennsylvania’s only legal services organization to focus exclusively on adults sixty years of age and older. We serve 10,000 clients annually, many of them victims of elder abuse and financial exploitation.

As Director of our Victim Services Project, I look forward to the upcoming celebration of the 17th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. I also take pride in the fact that to our team, every day is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Our fight to seek justice for older adult victims continues 365 days a year.

We are currently providing more than two hundred older victims of abuse and financial exploitation with direct legal services. Our exceptional team of skilled attorneys and compassionate legal advocates collaborates to deliver the highest-quality direct legal services using a trauma-informed and client-centered model. 

Every week we appear in Philadelphia courts as well as frequently in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties. We partner with District Attorneys, law enforcement, community leaders, and providers across the aging services network. We train attorneys and other legal professionals to utilize best practices when working with older adult victims. 

We come to work every day to let older people know they are not alone, to embolden them with resources and representation, and to give to them what we all need: to be seen, heard, understood, and protected. We all long for a world where the focus and attention of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is not a once-a-year event, but part of the daily lives of all Americans.”

On June 15, 2023, in honor of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, SeniorLAW Center’s Director, Victim Services, Brendan Corbalis, Esq. and Supervising Attorney, Roseanne Milanes, Esq., will join Tamikia Morris, Director of Older Adult Protective Services (OAPS) at Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) as guest panelists of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Elder Law and Guardianship Committee. The event is co-sponsored by the First Judicial District.

The goal of the panel discussion is to raise awareness of elder abuse and to identify and discuss solutions to the barriers to justice facing older adult victims. The discussion will be moderated by the Committee Co-Chairs, attorneys Bess Collier, Esq. and Linda Hee, Esq.

To attend, register here.

SeniorLAW Center was featured in Monday's edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer for Tenant Rights Staff Attorney, Adam Weintraub-Barth’s representation of Haddington Elderly Housing resident, Earl Dupree. Earl is shining a light on the elevator maintenance issues plaguing the federally subsidized housing complex that effectively trap older and disabled residents in their units. “They’re scared to death. Management is always threatening to evict them. They live by themselves, they don’t have family, they don’t have anywhere else to go,” Earl said.



These type of outages and accessibility issues mainly impact lower-income Philadelphians without the resources to hire legal representation and are especially damaging to older and disabled residents. SeniorLAW Center is proud to represent and advocate for older adults facing injustice, like Mr. Dupree and the tenants at Haddington. Click the link below to read Max Marin’s great reporting about these hazardous housing problems in Philadelphia.

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