Contemporary social justice and/or policy issues specific to the Elderly
The older people suffer from distributive injustice, and the argument is support
ed by a wide range of information relating to the poverty rates among the older persons globally. Hug portion of the elderly live in poverty. In most countries worldwide, older people suffer from moderate to severe economic distress or nutritional security. The older adults are not just the exploited class but also disparaged as well. It is because they suffer substantively and significantly from ageism. Ageism is defined as the process of discrimination and systematic stereotyping the old people because they are old, just like sexism stand racism accomplish this foe gender and skin color.the elderly are categoruied are
old fashioned in skils and morality, rigid in manner an thought as well as they are senile. Ageisim permist the younger generation to view the elderly as different fromthem hence they are hardly identified as human beings.older people are dispcriminated bacsue of their age at workplace. Furthermore the
y eare presented in humiliated ways aross difefent media platforms, invisible to mosts cultural institutions and are majinalised in most social ativities. Many people do not want to be referd as old person.
The social legal policies that have been adopted in various nation
s around the globe in the sphere of social justice amongt he eldely have cocnetrated in various aspects of the afimative solution of the distributive injust
ice. The respinsibele persoms must establisjh social security system that is based on the old age allowances plsu old age assured income structure. A long trm care shouldbe added to the social security schemes.resources should also be allocated to the financing institutional frameworks for the nursing care or establishment of various economic discounts as well as benefists for te senious citizens. The discussed policies attempts to redesributes revenues in a way that shall correct he injustice of the elderly people.
Contrary, mot of nations worldwide has no significant ir effective legal aton of a clear and coherent soila policy aimed at conetedn with
the cultural and syboloc injustice of older persons. The reality in ost cases is the
opposite. The soial policies emphasized and increased te aspects of disability, illness and weakness of older persons and bydoing so, bolstered and refpected the humiliation nd disparagement from which older individuals suffer.
The sphere of the socio legal justice system amongt h old people, inetnationala nd national focus must be shifted from the well known failier of the redistributive justice to the unknown failier of symbolic and cultural justice. The understanding that there is recognitional, cultural an symbolic importntce to the new worldwide human rights concextion dedicated to he old people is o importance. The legal rights of the elderly could be presently indirectly adresees through the current human rights tools. However it shall not resolve the existing soila justice the
eldersly are going through. Only exclusive an new human rights covesion shall dignify and symbolize the recognition fo he olde persons as fully equal groups worthy of the respect of the society.