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Judith Wahl, Barrister and Solicitor, has been the Executive Director and Senior Lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) since 1984.
ACE is a community legal service for low income seniors that focuses on legal issues that have a greater impact on the older population. She is a member of the Guardianship Advisory Committee, Office of the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee; the Alzheimers' Roundtable, Ministry of Citizenship, Ontario Seniors Secretariat; the Long-Term Care Facility Standards & Criteria Stakeholder Committee, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; the Compliance Monitoring and Risk Advisory Group, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long- Term Care; the Canadian Bar Association; the Ontario Bar Association; and the Canadian Association of Gerontology. She has organized and taught numerous public legal education programmes to social workers, health practitioners, and other social service providers on legal issues that arise in their day to day work with seniors, including Advance Care Planning - Physicians' Training Ontario College of Family Physicians and Alzheimer Society of Ontario; Gerontology Programme at McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences; the Diversity Training Course at C.O. Bick Police College; as well as Continuing Legal Education Programmes for the Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario Bar Association, the former Canadian Bar Association – Ontario, and the Canadian Bar Association National. All of these programmes have focused on law and aging issues, such as Mental Capacity, Guardianship, and Substitute Decision- Making; Elder Abuse; and Patients' Rights/Long Term Care Issues; and Aging Issues and Law Reform.