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  • The Framework for Federal Involvement: The White House Conference on Aging and the Older Americans ActGo to chapter: The Framework for Federal Involvement: The White House Conference on Aging and the Older Americans Act

    The Framework for Federal Involvement: The White House Conference on Aging and the Older Americans Act

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    The Older Americans Act (OAA) passed in 1965 provides a foundation for such involvement through its original mandate to serve all older Americans through a plethora of services and supports designed to help maintain the independence, security, and well-being of older adults. In 1958, legislation was introduced that asked for a White House Conference on Aging, which would bring together persons from all parts of the country to make policy recommendations that would focus on the economic security of older persons. Indicators show that it has been helping homebound elderly at risk of nursing home placement to stay at home, and it has continued to build the capacity of state agencies and Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to implement comprehensive systems of care. To improve its performance, the Administration on Aging (AOA) is focusing on improving efficiency, improving client outcomes, and further targeting services offered to the vulnerable elderly.

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    Social Policy for an Aging Society: A Human Rights Perspective
  • Policy and the Right to Health and Health CareGo to chapter: Policy and the Right to Health and Health Care

    Policy and the Right to Health and Health Care

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    The rights to health and health care in the event of illness, disability, or old age are detailed in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR). These rights are fundamental to the well-being of older adults as their needs for medical care increase with age. As episodes of acute illness decline, chronic conditions increase with age, impacting both individuals and society. Chronic conditions such as arthritis and heart disease permeate many areas of a person’s life, often increasing demands for an array of support. Medicare was developed in the 1960s to address the needs of the aging population with regard to health care. Medicaid, Title XIX, under the Social Security Act was passed in 1965 to provide health care for those below the poverty line. Consumer-directed care programs have the older person responsible for hiring the care provider and determining the services he or she wants.

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  • Global Aging, Policy, and Human RightsGo to chapter: Global Aging, Policy, and Human Rights

    Global Aging, Policy, and Human Rights

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    This chapter discusses some countries and their policies to highlight the ways in which older adults are impacting society. Each of the countries discussed has developed policies to meet the needs of their older citizens with varying recognition and emphasis on their human rights. The policies of each reflect underlying sociocultural and economic factors and the ways in which aging and the aged are perceived in their society. Meeting the economic challenge of an older population along with changes in family structures requires planning and policies in several areas. Pensions, accessible health care, family assistance, housing and community services, and formal support programs that can assist older adults in their homes are among the areas where reforms are most needed. Specialists and long-term care facilities are rare, and there is a noticeable absence of mental health services in most countries.

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    Social Policy for an Aging Society: A Human Rights Perspective
  • Policy and the Right to Liberty and SecurityGo to chapter: Policy and the Right to Liberty and Security

    Policy and the Right to Liberty and Security

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    The right to life, liberty, and security is most profoundly challenged by guardianship, which is a procedure that can severely constrict the older adult’s ability to act on his or her own and according to that individual’s own wishes. The Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protected Proceedings Jurisdiction Act (UAGPPJA) of 2007 attempts to improve the guardianship process by making it more uniform across states, and it is particularly important when a guardianship involves several states. The costs of programs such as continuing care, assisted living, and the village model remain too expensive for the majority of older Americans and federal assistance through subsidies is very limited. Transportation is a critical service necessary for many older adults to remain in the community. Efforts are being made to develop appropriate accessible transportation for older adults and those with disabilities.

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  • Social Policy for an Aging Society Go to book: Social Policy for an Aging Society

    Social Policy for an Aging Society:
    A Human Rights Perspective

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    The issues evoked by an aging world pose new challenges with regard to employment, health, retirement, families, and the economy. Societies respond to these challenges in varying ways and these responses can be subsumed under the rubric of social policies. Human rights apply to everyone; they do not diminish with age. This book discusses many of the key issues and concerns confronting older adults in the United States and the policies formulated to deal with them. The ways in which these policies reflect human rights is key in each chapter. The first chapter presents the background on social policy and human rights and how they pertain to and impact older adults. The second chapter focuses on the Older Americans Act (OAA), the foundation of aging policy in the United States, as well as on the federal government involvement by discussing the White Housing conferences on aging. While the third chapter addresses economic supports for older adults, the fourth chapter examines policies associated with liberty and security. The fifth and sixth chapters discuss physical and mental health, and focus on employment and the workplace. This is followed by a discussion on the social policy and the family and by examining how policy relates to vulnerable populations of older adults. The penultimate chapter of the book explores the ways in which various countries are developing policies for their older population and how these reflect human rights. The last chapter looks at the future policy challenges that must be met in order to ensure that rights of older adults are addressed.

  • Policy Challenges in Meeting the Rights of Older AdultsGo to chapter: Policy Challenges in Meeting the Rights of Older Adults

    Policy Challenges in Meeting the Rights of Older Adults

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    Policies that promote social ties, social networks, activities, and the involvement of older adults in communities would simultaneously combat isolation and age discrimination and benefit society as a whole. Discrimination marginalizes and disenfranchises older adults, and in doing so treats them as a problem to be solved rather than as equal members of the community who are entitled to the same basic human rights. Social Security is the primary source of income for most older Americans and is particularly important for minorities, older women, and those who have had lifetimes of low earnings. Continuing care communities and assisted-living facilities which could enable many to remain in the community are unaffordable for the majority of older adults. The Medicare program continues to focus on acute rather than chronic care and thus fails to address the health care needs of many older adults.

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    Social Policy for an Aging Society: A Human Rights Perspective
  • The Most Vulnerable Groups of Older AdultsGo to chapter: The Most Vulnerable Groups of Older Adults

    The Most Vulnerable Groups of Older Adults

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    Vulnerability places older adults at grave risk of having many of their human rights violated. These are persons who have faced discrimination throughout their lives, and if they become dependent with age they are bound to face increasing inequalities. Vulnerability itself can be a precursor to the most extreme violation of human rights, elder abuse. The inequality that women face throughout their life span makes them particularly vulnerable to having rights ignored in their later years. In addition to being more likely to be living alone, older women are nearly twice as likely as older men to be poor. Long-term care is a significant burden for older women, as they are more likely than men to be both caregivers and care receivers. Medicare plays an important role in the lives of older women who comprise more than half of all beneficiaries.

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    Social Policy for an Aging Society: A Human Rights Perspective
  • Social Policy, Human Rights, and Older AdultsGo to chapter: Social Policy, Human Rights, and Older Adults

    Social Policy, Human Rights, and Older Adults

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    Social policy is enacted to address social problems and inequalities in society. Policy involves choices concerning benefits, allocations, and the sectors that are involved in the allocations. It also includes decisions about the institutions that are responsible for addressing specific concerns and problems. Values are important influences on policy, with three of the most prominent being equality, equity, and adequacy. As such, social policy based upon a human rights framework would provide every individual with guarantees for having needs met in a just society that recognizes such needs as fundamental to addressing human rights. A rights-based framework for understanding policy focuses on how rights are emphasized rather than on how human needs are met. Policies that focus on older adults often emphasize traditional values, such as beneficence and paternalism, that can actually undermine their status and human rights.

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