The realization of the right to health of older persons 2011, para. 51
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- The abuse of older persons can be complex when the abusing caregiver is a relative or a family member. The frequency of elder abuse in the domestic setting, including abuse perpetrated by family members, was estimated by one study as occurring in anywhere between 2 and 10 per cent of all cases. In an institutional setting incidences of abuse are even harder to ascertain Abuse may also take the form of prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes and acts, which manifests itself through paternalism towards older persons in care, leaving them feeling humiliated, infantilized, and robbing them of the identity they otherwise have as human beings.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/18/37, para. 51.
- Paragraph number
- 51
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