Overview
- Provides a detailed and comprehensive human rights analysis of all key areas of law affecting older persons
- Addresses the multifaceted challenges presented by an aging population worldwide
- Applies a human rights lens to the existing mechanisms within domestic laws protecting the rights of older people
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Bridget Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a member of the Planning for Healthy Ageing research group at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She has published widely on a range of human rights issues, particularly the application of international human rights law to contemporary issues such as climate change and natural disasters, with a focus on the rights of vulnerable groups.
Kelly Purser is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a co-lead of the Planning for Healthy Ageing research group at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research. Her research focuses on the challenges presented by capacity assessment and the ageing population.
Kirsty Mackie is a nationally recognised elder law practitioner with a strong interest in elder abuse, advocacy, and law reform. She works in the Legal Placement Unit at the University of the Sunshine Coast and is also a Guest Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology on elder abuse. She has appeared as an expert on national television to discuss elder law issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Human Rights of Older Persons
Book Subtitle: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Elder Law
Authors: Bridget Lewis, Kelly Purser, Kirsty Mackie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6735-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6734-6Published: 08 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6737-7Published: 09 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6735-3Published: 07 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 338
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Aging