Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing / edited by Sue Westwood and Nancy J. Knauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Westwood, Sue, editor.

Knauer, Nancy J., editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in law and society.

Research Handbooks in Law and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal assistance to older people.

Older people--Legal status, laws, etc.

Older people.

Older people--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2024]

Summary:

In an era where the population is rapidly ageing, this timely Research Handbook addresses the wide-ranging social and legal issues concerning older people.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

About the editors

Contributors

Acknowledgement

1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing

PART I Law, ageing and international rights

2. An international convention on the rights of older people?

3. The Inter-American Convention on the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons - a step towards an international convention on the rights of older people?

4. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa

5. Age discrimination laws in the EU

6. Older women's rights in international law

PART II Specialist legal services for older people

7. The development of 'Elder Law' in the United States

8. Elder Law: a critique and some suggestions

9. The Association of Lifetime Lawyers (formerly Solicitors for the Elderly): its origins, development and key areas of practice in relation to older people

10. Legal implications of living to 100 and beyond

PART III Law, ageing, space and place

11. equality issues relating to older people, transnational care and global care chains

12. Older people and housing precarity: socio-legal perspectives

13. Long-term care facilities for older people: human rights concerns

14. Virtual spaces: ageism on social media - representations, reinforcement and resistance

15. Climate change, older people and the law

PART IV Law, ageing, work and pensions

16. Ageism as an institutional push factor for retirement: the need for cultural and organisational change

17. Gendered ageism and disablism and employment of older workers

18. Older women workers, the pandemic, employment discrimination and lifetime disadvantage

19. Menopause discrimination at work: comparing the law in the United States and United Kingdom.

20. Older women and comparative pension inequalities in the UK and US

PART V Law, ageing and justice

21. Older people and access to justice

22. Constructions of vulnerability in relation to older victims of crime

23. Sexual violence against older women

24. Intimate partner violence among older LGBTQ+ adults

25. Defining, understanding and preventing homicide-suicide among older adults

26. Older people in prison

PART VI Law, ageing, health and wellbeing

27. A global examination of law and the abuse of older people

28. Older people, health inequality and the right to health

29. Age-related dementia and the law: the challenges of mental capacity and equality

30. Older people and advance care planning

31. Older people and assisted dying

32. Older people and assistive technologies: a human rights approach

PART VII Law, ageing, care and support

33. Older people and filial support laws

34. European Union law, care and ageing

35. Older people, care concerns and an ethic of care

36. Older people and human rights violations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of ageism and the case of care homes

37. Older LGBTQ+ people and the equality/human rights implications of inequalities in older age health/social care provision

38. Ethical issues in the use of robots for the care of older people

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-80392-529-9