WELL BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE AS HUMAN RIGHTS : India will face an enormous burden of a rapidly ageing population and will have two confront fresh problems of age-related dependency even before the needs of the younger population are attended to fully. There is therefore a need to lay down indicators which would provide a ready retina or addressing the needs of the elderly. The preceding article has any merit it various issues which have already arisen and would grow in the years to come in a country like India. It is recommended that the following indicators should be included when considering a situation of a developing country which is already facing demographic changes in terms of ageing coupled with a population momentum which will take at least 30 years more to stabilise. The vulnerability of the elderly in countries where it is presumed that the family will take care of them, both in terms of policy as well as the law, the challenges greater. This is because unless there are benchmarks to judge well-being, quality of life and human rights and dignity, the resources would be laid to thinly and there would be no way of judging progress or achievement. The indicators should therefore include: * A description of the meaning of old age; * Indicators that measure access to financial security; * An indicator that addresses the special problems of women and ageing; * An assessment of the portrayal of ageing by the media; * Encouragement to lifelong learning and social innovation for the elderly; * Whether scope exists for the elderly to assume positions of leadership within society. (Social Voice) * Investment in geriatric health care through family practitioners or specialists to cater to specific health needs of the elderly. * Providing palliative care and home-based care for chronic non-communicable diseases. * An indicator which captures the Human Rights of the elderly. * Indicators to cover aspects of ageing related to increased urbanisation * An indicator that addresses international migration and challenges faced by parents/grandparents left alone in the home country.
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 14:41:42 +0000
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