Elder Rights in a State of Disaster:
“Social Solidarity for the Rights of the Elderly”
CHOI Ryeong
[Professor of Department of Health and
Public Administration of Dongshin University]
Currently in 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019 still raging across the world, it is time to think about the meaning of “disaster” as well as solidarity and publicness of relationships, health and life, public health and medical care, and public health and welfare, with the elder rights at the center of all those issues.
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Like the members of other age groups, the elderly are individuals who exercise and enjoy the human rights guaranteed by the Constitution, law, and international human rights treaties. In addition, the elderly’s human rights encompass all the rights included in the natural rights and the fundamental rights to freedom, livelihood, and health.
In this disaster caused by COVID-19, it is necessary to conceptualize “Social Solidarity for the Rights of the Elderly,” led by public health, medical care, and welfare experts.
Elder Rights in a State of Disaster:
“Social Solidarity for the Rights of the Elderly”
CHOI Ryeong
[Professor of Department of Health and
Public Administration of Dongshin University]
Currently in 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019 still raging across the world, it is time to think about the meaning of “disaster” as well as solidarity and publicness of relationships, health and life, public health and medical care, and public health and welfare, with the elder rights at the center of all those issues.
.
.
.
Like the members of other age groups, the elderly are individuals who exercise and enjoy the human rights guaranteed by the Constitution, law, and international human rights treaties. In addition, the elderly’s human rights encompass all the rights included in the natural rights and the fundamental rights to freedom, livelihood, and health.
In this disaster caused by COVID-19, it is necessary to conceptualize “Social Solidarity for the Rights of the Elderly,” led by public health, medical care, and welfare experts.