Fostering Stability in Aging

Welcome to Fostering Stability in Aging, a collaboration brought to you by the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the ABA Commission on Law and Aging designed as a resource hub to equip attorneys and other advocates representing and/or supporting older adults at risk of poverty and homelessness.

ABA Resources

• Commission on Law & Aging
  • Bifocal
    • The Struggle of Reentry: A Neglected Issue Concerning Older Adults
    • Is a Housing Affordability Crisis on the Horizon for Seniors?
    • The Graying of Homelessness
  • Is a Housing Affordability Crisis on the Horizon for Seniors?
  • Nursing home evictions, affordable housing crisis for seniors explored in ABA e-journal
  • 2021 National Aging and Law Conference | Dorothy Was Right, There is No Place Like Home
  • COLA Policy
    • Advocacy for the retention of and/or establishment of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives special or select committees on aging as permanent committees.

• ABA Journal

  • Approaches to Easing the Affordable Housing and Health Care Challenges Seniors Face

  • Integrating Health and Supportive Services in Affordable Senior Housing: New Models for Service Coordination

• Senior Lawyer Division

  • Promoting Elder Justice Through Guardianship Defense and Diversion

  • Tipping Points: Recognizing and Preventing the Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

• Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice

  • We Are Where We Live: Seniors, Housing Choice, and the Fair Housing Act

  • Medical Debt: Strategies for Tackling A Growing "Epidemic"

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

Additional Resources:

• Housing-Related Services for People Experiencing Homelessness
• Housing and Services Resource Center Solving for Homelessness Webinar
• Solving for Homelessness among Older Adults, People with Disabilities, and Other Populations Webinar
• Ending Homelessness - Developing Partnerships Between HUD Continuums of Care and Disability, Aging, and Health Services Providerss Webinar

National Organizations & Resources

• HelpAge USA

  • Work with their Global Network patterns to ensure that older people receive specialized emergency assistance and healthcare

  • Create pathways for secure incomes and educate older people about their rights

  • Work to end elder abuse and violence

• Justice in Aging

  • Housing and Homelessness Prevention

    • Work aims to address systemic barriers to housing for low-income older adults

    • Advance equity-centered policy solutions to increase the supply of and funding for affordable age-friendly housing, and train advocates serving older adults on how to connect their older adult clients to affordable housing.

• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys

  • Housing/Residents Rights

• Administration for Community Living

  • Housing & Services Resource Center

• National Health Care for the Homeless Council
  • Helpful articles related to organizations in network helping older adults

• Corporation for Supportive Housing

  • Works to advance affordable housing aligned with services as an approach to help people thrive by advocating for effective policies and funding, equitably investing in communities and strengthening the supportive housing field

  • Health Aging in Supportive Housing

• National Consumer Law Center

  • Homeownership & Foreclosure - promoting just, affordable homeownership and foreclosure prevention

• United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

  • Older Adults and Homelessness: How Continuums of Care and Area Agencies on Aging can Collaborate

• USA Aging

  • Represents and supports national network of Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) and Advocates for the Title VI Native American Aging Programs that help older adults and people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence and dignity in their homes and communities. 

  • Area Agencies on Aging have helplines for specific geographic regions that help older adults housing (contingent on funding) and/or legal assistance.

  • AAA Homelessness Prevention Programs and Partnership Case Examples