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Europe is ageing. However, in many European countries, and in
almost all fields of life, older persons experience discrimination,
social exclusion, and negative stereotypes that portray them as
different or a burden to society. This pivotal book is the first of
its kind, providing a rich and diverse analysis of the
inter-relationships between ageing, ageism and law within Europe.
Throughout the book - which builds on a European Cooperation in
Science & Technology (COST) action - leading scholars offer
theoretical and empirical analysis in order to discern the role
European law plays in perpetuating and combating ageism. Including
specific examples of how stereotypes and prejudices influence and
shape the European legal system, the book contributes to the
broader current global social movement towards advancing a new
international human rights convention for older persons. Timely and
engaging, this book will appeal to students and scholars of law,
sociology, public policy and a wide range of related fields
including gerontology, human rights, and health-studies.
Practitioners, policy-makers, civil society organizations and
senior citizens activists will also benefit from the insights into
the socio-legal aspects of social policies and human rights of
older persons. Contributors include: P. de Hert, M. De Pauw, I.
Doron, N. Georgantzi, A. Gur, R. Harding, E. Mantovani, T.
Mattsson, B. Mikolajczyk, A. Numhauser-Henning, G. Quinn, P. Quinn,
B. Spanier, B. Sleap, J. Watson
People are leading significantly longer lives than previous
generations did, and the proportion of older people in the
population is growing. Residential care for older people will
become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will
require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older
people receive attention at international and regional levels, with
the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the
African Union exploring the possibility of establishing new
conventions for the rights of older persons. This book explores the
rights of older people and their quality of care once they are
living in a care home, and considers how we can commence the
journey towards a human rights framework to ensure decent and
dignified care for older people. The book takes a comparative
approach to present and future challenges facing the care home
sector for older people in Africa (Kenya), the Arab world (Egypt),
Australia, China, England, Israel, Japan and the USA. An
international panel of experts have contributed chapters,
identifying how their particular society cares for its older and
oldest people, the extent to which demographic and economic change
has placed their system under pressure and the role that
residential elder care homes play in their culture. The book also
explores the extent to which constitutional or other rights form a
foundation to the regulatory and legislative structures to
residential elder care and it examines the important concept of
dignity. As a multi-regional study of the care of older person from
a human rights perspective, this book will be of excellent use and
interest, in particular to students and researchers of family and
welfare law, long-term care, social policy, social work, human
rights and elder law.
All over the world, there is a growing interest in the relationship
between law and aging: How does the law influence the lives of
older people? Can rights, advocacy and representation advance the
social position of the aged and combat ageism? What are the new and
cutting-edge frontiers in the field of elder law? Should there be a
new international human rights convention in this field? These are
only a few of the many questions that arise. This book attempts to
answer some of these questions and to set the agenda for the future
development of elder law across the globe. Taking into account
existing research and knowledge, leading scholars from different
continents (North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia) present in
this book original and novel ideas regarding the future development
of elder law. These ideas touch upon key topics such as elder
guardianship, citizenship, mental capacity, elder abuse, human
rights and international law, family relationships, age
discrimination, and the right to die. This book can thus serve as
an important reference work for all those interested in
understanding where law and aging are headed, and for those
concerned about the future legal rights of older persons.
This book is about trying to answer questions. These questions were
well introduced by Prof. Margaret Hall in the opening of her
chapter in this book: "The fundamental idea of 'law and aging' as a
discrete category of legal principle and theory is controversial:
how and why are 'older adults' or 'seniors' or 'elders' (the very
terminology is controversial and fraught with difficulties) a
discrete and distinct group for whom 'special' legal thought and
treatment is justified? For some, a category of law and aging is
inherently paternalistic, suggesting that older persons are, like
children, especially in need of the protection of the law. In this
sense, the argument continues, the category itself internalizes
ageist presumptions about older adults and is therefore inherently
flawed and even harmful. If certain older adults are, because of
physical or mental infirmities, genuinely in need of an enhanced
level of legal protection, this entitlement should be
conceptualized in terms of their disability; older adults are not a
distinct group but an arbitrarily delineated demographic category
which contains within it any number of groups that are legitimately
distinct for the purposes of legal theory (the di- bled; women;
persons of colour; Aboriginal persons; rich and poor; etc.) Indeed,
the arti- cial category of "older adults" may be seen as
obfuscating, submerging these more meaningful distinctions.
This book is about trying to answer questions. These questions were
well introduced by Prof. Margaret Hall in the opening of her
chapter in this book: "The fundamental idea of 'law and aging' as a
discrete category of legal principle and theory is controversial:
how and why are 'older adults' or 'seniors' or 'elders' (the very
terminology is controversial and fraught with difficulties) a
discrete and distinct group for whom 'special' legal thought and
treatment is justified? For some, a category of law and aging is
inherently paternalistic, suggesting that older persons are, like
children, especially in need of the protection of the law. In this
sense, the argument continues, the category itself internalizes
ageist presumptions about older adults and is therefore inherently
flawed and even harmful. If certain older adults are, because of
physical or mental infirmities, genuinely in need of an enhanced
level of legal protection, this entitlement should be
conceptualized in terms of their disability; older adults are not a
distinct group but an arbitrarily delineated demographic category
which contains within it any number of groups that are legitimately
distinct for the purposes of legal theory (the di- bled; women;
persons of colour; Aboriginal persons; rich and poor; etc.) Indeed,
the arti- cial category of "older adults" may be seen as
obfuscating, submerging these more meaningful distinctions.
People are leading significantly longer lives than previous
generations did, and the proportion of older people in the
population is growing. Residential care for older people will
become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will
require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older
people receive attention at international and regional levels, with
the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the
African Union exploring the possibility of establishing new
conventions for the rights of older persons. This book explores the
rights of older people and their quality of care once they are
living in a care home, and considers how we can commence the
journey towards a human rights framework to ensure decent and
dignified care for older people. The book takes a comparative
approach to present and future challenges facing the care home
sector for older people in Africa (Kenya), the Arab world (Egypt),
Australia, China, England, Israel, Japan and the USA. An
international panel of experts have contributed chapters,
identifying how their particular society cares for its older and
oldest people, the extent to which demographic and economic change
has placed their system under pressure and the role that
residential elder care homes play in their culture. The book also
explores the extent to which constitutional or other rights form a
foundation to the regulatory and legislative structures to
residential elder care and it examines the important concept of
dignity. As a multi-regional study of the care of older person from
a human rights perspective, this book will be of excellent use and
interest, in particular to students and researchers of family and
welfare law, long-term care, social policy, social work, human
rights and elder law.
Dementia is a topic of enormous human, medical, economic, legal and
ethical importance. Its importance grows as more of us live longer.
The legal and ethical problems it raises are complex, intertwined
and under-discussed. This book brings together contributions from
clinicians, lawyers and ethicists - all of them world leaders in
the field of dementia - and is a comprehensive, scholarly yet
accessible library of all the main (and many of the fringe)
perspectives. It begins with the medical facts: what is dementia?
Who gets it? What are the current and future therapeutic and
palliative options? What are the main challenges for medical and
nursing care? The story is then taken up by the ethicists, who
grapple with questions such as: is it legitimate to lie to dementia
patients if that is a kind thing to do? Who is the person whose
memory, preferences and personality have all been transformed by
their disease? Should any constraints be placed on the sexual
activity of patients? Are GPS tracking devices an unpardonable
interference with the patient's freedom? These issues, and many
more, are then examined through legal lenses. The book closes with
accounts from dementia sufferers and their carers. It is the first
and only book of its kind, and the authoritative text.
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