A number of stereotypes about aging and the abilities of older persons appear to exist and may give rise to discriminatory treatment.
What can the Commission do to raise public awareness about human rights issues related to aging and to combat these attitudinal barriers?
The Commission is examining discrimination based on intersecting or overlapping grounds as important for understanding how persons experience unequal treatment. With respect to age discrimination, the Commission has identified two particular groups that appear to experience significant disadvantage because of a combination of historical and social factors: (1) elderly women and (2) elderly persons with disabilities.
The paper identifies several policy initiatives that can help to address the needs of all seniors and these two groups in particular:
Do you have any comments about any of these policy initiatives?
Based on your experience or the experience of your organization, are there other groups of older persons who experience human rights issues that you would like to tell us about?
Are there other issues related to elderly women and older persons with disabilities that you would like to draw to our attention?