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Health and human rights of older persons: challenges and opportunities

This article highlights the key challenge of exclusion faced by older people in three critical levels: as individuals, in sectoral policy making, and in the human rights monitoring framework. It discusses discrimination against individual older people and their exclusion from sectoral policy making and human rights monitoring. The article also emphasizes the opportunities for addressing these challenges through periodic reporting, treaty bodies, special procedures, and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

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Health and human rights of older persons: challenges and opportunities

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  1. Health and human rights of older persons: challenges and opportunities

  2. Key challenge Exclusion of older people at 3 critical levels: 1. As individuals 2. In sectoral policy making 3. In human rights monitoring framework

  3. 1. Discrimination against individual older people

  4. “We have to tell a lie when calling the ambulance.”

  5. “They invent illnesses because they feel marginalised.”

  6. “You are wasting the doctor’s time – you are not sick, just old.”

  7. 2. Exclusion from sectoral policy making

  8. Invisibility in the data (1) HIV: 15 – 49 Violence against women: 18 – 49

  9. Invisibility in the data (2) Available data 32 country survey: Use of health-care facilities: 50% Numbers of geriatric wards: 44% Older people’s health expenditure: 28% Government expenditure disaggregated by age: 19%

  10. 3. Invisibility in human rights monitoring framework

  11. Attention by treaty bodies

  12. Inconsistent attention

  13. Opportunities States Parties: periodic reporting Treaty Bodies: list of issues, constructive dialogues, concluding observations Special procedures UPR HRC: Consider suggestions from OEWG - special rapporteur & convention

  14. www.helpage.org

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