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Edward W. Long is an experienced presenter on legal and financial matters before diverse audiences. He spent the first 23 years of his professional life as a Wall Street lawyer helping private companies and government agencies raise billions of dollars to finance major capital projects including power plants, convention centers and sports stadiums. At the end of 1993, after experiencing the problems and suffering of the last years of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, Ed left big firm practice to become an elder law attorney and help older adults and families.

In 1996, he shut down his private practice, and with his wife Pat (a geriatric social worker) founded H.E.L.P. (Healthcare and Elder Law Programs Corporation) – a first-of-its-kind non-profit education and counseling center for older adults and families. Based in Torrance, H.E.L.P. has assisted many thousands of elders and families in and beyond the South Bay. Ed and Pat retired from the H.E.L.P. staff on May 31, 2008.

Ed and Pat are now part of a core group of volunteers working to create Caring House, a home dedicated to providing compassionate care and support to those at the ends of their lives, and support to their families and loved ones.

In January 2008, Ed joined the Board of Trustees of the Palos Verdes Library District. Ed also serves on the Los Angeles County Commission on Aging; and the bioethics committees at both Providence Little Company of Mary Hospital and Torrance Memorial Medical Center. He is also a co-founder of KEEP-SAFE Coalition (dedicated to preventing and combating elder abuse).

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