2007 National Aging and Law Conference

“Safety Net for Older Americans: What Can Be Done to Protect It?” is the theme of the 2007 National Aging and Law Conference in Arlington, Virginia. The seventh annual conference consists of a “nuts and bolts” preconference on October 10 and a main conference on October 11–13.

The AARP Foundation, the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, the National Senior Citizens Law Center, the Center for Social Gerontology, the Center for Medicare Advocacy, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National Consumer Law Center, and the National Association of State Units on Aging are sponsoring the conference. The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is a cooperating agency for this event.

For more information and to register, go to http://givenow.ga4.org/aarpnltp/events/nalc07/details.tcl.

Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, the Shriver Center’s bimonthly journal of poverty law and policy, recently chose “elder law” as the subject of a 2008 special issue.