POR UNA DECLARACIÓN DE DERECHOS DE LAS PERSONAS MAYORES
FOR THE REDACTION OF A STATEMENT REGARDING THE ELDERLY´S RIGHTS.

Summary/Abstract: The need to set a statement relating to the elderly’s rights that could beconnected to a legislation with the aim to guarantee the protection of the former, ispresented herein. The existence of some omissions within the recognition of the elderly’srights has been confirmed despite the international and national laws adopted regardingtheir human rights based on the fact that they are people included under the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights of 1948. Elderly people have passed from being respected dueto their age and position, to a situation of social exclusion and a lack of legal protection. Thesetting of a bill of rights regarding the elderly shall be addressed institutionally in order toprevent the continuous acts infringed against elderly people causing damage to their dignityas human beings. Currently it is difficult for them to achieve that their participation shall berespected and they lack the conditions of equality that the rest of the citizens enjoy to claimand enforce their rights.

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