News Release

IOA Receives Contract To Study Legal Needs Of Older Adults

November 2, 2009

In October the Institute on Aging received a $26,600 contract from the Division of Aging and Adult Services to conduct an Assessment of the Legal Needs of Older Adults in North Carolina. In addition to support for conducting a senior legal needs survey, this contract is a part of a larger grant received by the Division from the Administration on Aging to establish a Senior Legal Helpline and to support a Senior Law Clinic at Campbell University in Raleigh. Principals on the needs assessment contract include IOA Associate Director for Public Service Bill Lamb and IOA Associate Director for Research Jennifer Craft Morgan, Ashley Rice, Project Manager and Lisa McQueen, UNC MSW student. The legal needs survey will be conducted on a sample of clients registered to receive services funded through the Home and Community Care Block Grant, and a report will be provided to the Division of Aging and Adult Services in the Summer of 2010.