PRAVNA ZAŠTITA STARIJIH OSOBA U MEĐUNARODNIM DOKUMENTIMA I ZAKONODAVSTVU FEDERACIJE BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
LEGAL PROTECTION OF ELDERLY PERSONS IN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND LEGISLATION OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents and analyzes the most important international documents in the field of the special rights of the elderly adopted at the level of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union, along with definitions of the term elderly person. Their adoption is motivated by the continuous increase of the elderly population, which today constitutes one of the essential challenges of the developed world, so that human rights, position in society, quality of life and the policy of protection of the elderly are increasingly becoming the subject of interest of the political, professional and scientific public. At the same time, the elderly, although one of the most vulnerable social groups that need special protection and specific human rights, unlike children and people with disabilities, who also belong to vulnerable groups, still do not have a comprehensive legally binding international instrument, the Convention on the Rights of the Elderly person, adopted at the level of the United Nations. Unsatisfactory protection, i.e. the application of existing international standards inevitably reflects on the position, protection and (non)fulfillment of basic human rights of the elderly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, according to the last population census (2013), with a percentage of 14.2% of elderly persons aged 65 and over years in the total population, and the World Bank (2007) estimates that by 2025 one fifth to one quarter of the population will be over 65 years old, belongs to countries with a high rate of so-called demographic age. In the same context, considering the state structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two entities and the district, and the fact that there is no appropriate legislation at the national level, especially in the field of social policy, health care and family law, in this work the exercise of rights, position, needs and the policy of protection of the elderly are mostly analyzed at the entity level of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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