BCCEAS is a community based, non-profit organization incorporated as a society in 1994 as the BC Coalition to Eliminate Abuse of Seniors. Following an extensive needs assessment to establish the first Elder Law Clinic in B.C, BCEAS changed its name in 2008 to the BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support.

In 1986, BC CEAS began as a grassroots advisory committees of North Shore Community Services (NSCS) with the Justice Institute of BC and of the Social Planning and Research Committee (SPARC). Members worked to support the Project to Review the Adult Guardianship Act. The SPARC Committee in partnership with the BC Old Age Pensioners Organization developed abuse prevention materials. North Shore Community Services documented cases of abuse and explored legal issues. In 1992 the SPARC and NSCS joined to form the BC Coalition on the Prevention of Elder Abuse and Neglect. NSCS with federal funding carried out community development in eight communities.

Since 2000, the Law Foundation of BC has supported the Legal Advocacy Project providing legal information and advocacy to older adults through a province wide toll free phone line, face to face and clinic program. Scotiabank and BC Securities Commission, among others, also funded financial abuse prevention projects such as Money Matters, ABCs of Fraud, and securities workshops.

In 2008 BCCEAS opened the first legal aid clinic for older adults in Western Canada thanks to funding from the Law Foundation.