Towards Human Rights In Residential Care For Older Persons

Author : Helen Meenan,Nicola Rees,Israel Doron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317910732

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Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons by Helen Meenan,Nicola Rees,Israel Doron Pdf

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.

Author : Bridget Lewis,Kelly Purser,Kirsty Mackie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789811567353

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The Human Rights of Older Persons by Bridget Lewis,Kelly Purser,Kirsty Mackie Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation. The research identifies individual autonomy and participation in decision-making as fundamental to a human rights-based approach to elder law. The book argues that a paradigm shift must occur away from traditional medical and charity-based understandings of ‘old age’ to instead acknowledge older persons as active holders of enforceable rights. The book argues that a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons is an essential tool in achieving this, but that even without a dedicated treaty there is much to be gained from a human rights-based approach. Significantly, because the issues arising in ‘old age’ are often the culmination of experiences occurring throughout the life course, a human rights-based approach to elder law must begin with a commitment to human rights for people of all ages.

Author : Helen Meenan,Nicola Rees,Israel Doron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317910725

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Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons by Helen Meenan,Nicola Rees,Israel Doron Pdf

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.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0104011424

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The human rights of older people in healthcare by Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights Pdf

Looks at how the principles of human rights can be applied to older people in hospitals and care homes to ensure they are treated with greater dignity and respect. This report covers the leadership of the Department of Health; the implementation of the Human Rights Act by service providers.

Author : Wioletta Knapik,Magdalena Kowalska,Tomasz Masłyk,Danka Moravčíková
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783737014816

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The European Union Social Policy on Older People in the Light of the Deinstitutionalisation of Social Services by Wioletta Knapik,Magdalena Kowalska,Tomasz Masłyk,Danka Moravčíková Pdf

The authors propose a holistic look at the problem of population ageing and global and regional effort to improve the quality of seniors’ life and their families through the integration of healthcare, social care, and senior-friendly environment. They also concentrate on the senior policy of the European Union and the concept of care farming against the backdrop of social farming. Finally, they present the results of the two largest studies under the GROWID project. They investigated older people’s needs against the background of the social services provided by care farms.

Author : Trudy Corrigan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839688737

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Human Rights in the Contemporary World by Trudy Corrigan Pdf

This book is a collection of narratives and research that explores our understanding of human rights in the contemporary world. The chapters highlight the narrative and experiences of researchers and academics who seek to ensure that human rights are implemented in policies and practices in their communities, their countries, and the global world. The book presents contemporary themes of the United Nations Human Rights in terms of current policies and practices, legislative reform, property rights, liberty, security, and freedom of expression. It also provides a comprehensive understanding of the importance of human rights across a number of fields of study that are very relevant in our contemporary world today.

Author : Maeve O?Rourke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192675804

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Human Rights and the Care of Older People by Maeve O?Rourke Pdf

Set against the rapid aging of the world's population, Human Rights and the Care of Older People explores the potential for the rule against torture and ill-treatment in international human rights law to better protect older people from care-related mistreatment. The book's analysis is broadly relevant but is prompted by the widespread reports of older people's suffering due to lack of access to care and coercion in respect of care needs. This includes the deprivation of liberty for 'care'. While recognizing that a new United Nations Convention on the rights of older people is on the horizon, the book argues that there is a pressing need for older people and all human rights actors to use and progressively interpret the established right to freedom from torture and ill-treatment. As an interpretive lens, the book offers a conception of a dignity violation that may amount to prohibited ill-treatment and thus trigger states' positive obligations to protect, including through systemic prevention measures. This book is intended as a tool for advocacy and a call for critical awareness, highlighting the anti-torture norm's potential for more effective application and challenging current legal barriers to such effectiveness. Meant for readers worldwide, the book addresses the rule against torture and ill-treatment from international law, regional European, Inter-American, and African perspectives. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Author : Dementia Alliance
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722702931

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Living with Dementia by Dementia Alliance Pdf

There are many resources available about the cognitive changes and impairments associated with dementia, including Alzheimer's. Little has been written, however, about LIVING with, what for many will be, a long-term condition. This handbook provides information and insights provided bypeople living with dementia and their care partners to help family and friends better understand living with early and moderate symptoms of dementia, and how to best support someone you care about.

Author : Claudia Martin,Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón,Bethany Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401771856

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Human Rights of Older People by Claudia Martin,Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón,Bethany Brown Pdf

This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side comparison of the work of regional human rights mechanisms, which have picked up some momentum in the past decade. Through its inclusion of law, policy, and current processes, the widest net possible has been cast to collect a descriptive resource for advocates. Overall, we hope that this book contributes to a better understanding of the current limitations and possibilities that international institutions offer to uphold the human rights of older persons. We expect that this information will allow states and other policy makers to move forward with the international recognition of the human rights of older persons. We know this is only a first effort in compiling and reporting the standards that are being produced by different international institutions. But we have no doubt that many others will follow with their expert analysis of these emerging standards, and that the ongoing discussion will finally crystalize in international human rights binding instruments explicitly recognizing the universal rights of older persons.

Author : Peter Blanck,Eilionóir Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317043690

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Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights by Peter Blanck,Eilionóir Flynn Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law. Bringing together a team of respected and experienced experts, the handbook offers a range of jurisdictional and multidisciplinary perspectives. The authors consider historical and contemporary, as well as comparative perspectives of disability law. Divided into three parts, the contributors provide a comprehensive reference to the theoretical underpinnings, ongoing debates and emerging fields within the subject. The study provides a strong basis for consideration of contemporary disability law, its research foundations, and progressive developments in the area. The book incorporates interdisciplinary and comparative country perspectives to capture the breadth of current discourse on disability law. This handbook provides a valuable resource for a wide range of scholars, public and private researchers, NGOs, and practitioners working in the area of disability law, and across national and transnational disability schemes. The work will be of important interest to those in the fields of sociology, history, psychology, economics, political science, rehabilitation sciences, medicine, technology, and law, among others.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309448093

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Families Caring for an Aging America by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults Pdf

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:225319957

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The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare by Anonim Pdf

In this report the Committee examines how human rights principles can be applied to ensure that older people in hospitals and care homes are treated with greater dignity and respect.

Author : Patricia Hynes,Michele Lamb,Damien Short,Matthew Waites
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317985327

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Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements by Patricia Hynes,Michele Lamb,Damien Short,Matthew Waites Pdf

Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing issues such as genocide in relation to indigenous peoples, rights-based approaches in development work, trafficking of children, and children’s rights in relation to political struggles for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual activity in India. It examines contexts ranging from Rwanda and South Korea to Northern Ireland and the city of Barcelona. The collection as a whole will be of interest to students and academics working in various disciplines such as politics, law and social policy, and to practitioners working on human rights for various governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as to sociologists seeking to develop understanding of the sociology of human rights. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0826116531

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Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 11 by Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, FCLM Pdf

We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers abnd residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review , Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changeing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the inpersonal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960s and 1970s to the present-day assisted living environments that have been fueled by economic, social, polictical, and legal forces. Most important ly, this volume identifies obstaclesto change and enlighten service providers, advocates, and key policy makers to the pitfalls that can largely interfere with positive outcomes as a result of long-term care deinstitutionalization. Topics explored include: Community-based alternatives for older adults with serious mental illness Failing consumer-directed alternatives to nursing homes Ethics of Medicare privatization

Author : Gianfranco Spalletta,Nerisa Banaj,Federica Piras
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889761081

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Insights in Aging Psychiatry: 2021 by Gianfranco Spalletta,Nerisa Banaj,Federica Piras Pdf