elder rights
Aged persons' entitlements
Elder rights are the legal protections and entitlements afforded to older adults, addressing issues like healthcare access, freedom from abuse and neglect, financial exploitation, housing, and end-of-life decisions.
The term appears in advocacy, social work, and legal contexts: She works for an organization that defends elder rights.
Elder rights frameworks recognize that aging populations face distinct vulnerabilities requiring specific safeguards.
- pensionsOngoing payments after employment
- social securityPublic financial protection programs
- power of attorneyLegal authority for another's decisions
- gerontologyScientific study of senescence
- protective servicesAgencies safeguarding vulnerable populations
ombudsman · geriatric care · long term care · Medicare · senior citizen · caregiving · end of life · advance directive · public awareness campaigns · senior housing · self-determination · undue influence · social security benefits · aging population · mandatory reporting · aging · retirement · golden years
- social causesfeminism, charity, environmentalism, volunteering, pacifism
- ageismageism, age discrimination, adultism, patronizing, condescension
- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician
- elder abusesenior neglect, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse, caregiver neglect, financial abuse
- Elder Laweldercare, senior care, senior services, nursing home abuse, adult protection
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
elder rightschildren's rights
Legal protections for minors
youth advocacy · student rights · child advocacy · child welfare · youth empowerment
elder rightselder abuse
Harming or exploiting seniors
elder neglect · ageism · age discrimination · nursing home abuse · mandatory retirement