A Socio-Legal Analysis of Elder Care Laws in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Deblina Dey
Keyword(s):  
Older Persons ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Parental Neglect ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law

AbstractCare for older persons in India is considered to be the prerogative of the family, particularly the adult children. The legal and policy discourse reiterates this notion as well. In a country that glorifies the notion of filial piety, one finds a rising number of instances of parental neglect and abuse over the last decade. Against this background, it is important to revisit the existing laws, especially the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act (2007) which aims to provide relief to aggrieved parents and senior citizens. In this Article, I analyse the relevant laws and discuss the nature of complaints lodged by elderly parents at the Maintenance Tribunal in Kolkata (India). The nature of intergenerational disputes and the way they are dealt with by the Tribunal highlight the law’s inability to imagine a world of needs beyond the economic needs of survival. Despite a few positive measures, the law presently falls short of interpreting the social ‘needs’ of belongingness, retaining authority and a position of importance in the family, a set of needs that often remain unspoken and are therefore disregarded by the law’s agent (the Tribunal judge in this case). I argue that in the process of translating the ‘needs’ of older persons into ‘rights’ through the application of the law, justice is disserved.

Social Well-Being of Institutionalized Elderly Persons

1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wornie L. Reed ◽  
Betty B. Washington
Keyword(s):  
Scale Score ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Institutionalized Elderly ◽  
The Social

This article describes the development of a scale, the Social Well-Being Scale, to measure the extent to which institutionalized older persons perceive their social needs as being met. For persons over sixty-five years of age, the scale score is not affected by age or sex, but it does distinguish them by race, health, and type of living arrangement. Further, the Social Well-Being Scale predicts the level of psychological well-being.

scholarly journals Adults and Social Supports for Older Parents in Peri-Urban Ibadan, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Kabiru k. Salami ◽  
Olugbenga O. Okunade
Keyword(s):  
Older Persons ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ibadan Nigeria

Introduction: The absence of comprehensive supports systems for older persons in Nigeria has put them on psychosocial challenges at old age. Thus, this study profiled the social supports provided by the adults to older persons in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria. Methods: This cross-sectional study utilized mixed method approach to administer a standardized questionnaire among 460 consented adults who had older parents, and conducted twelve in-depth interviews (IDIs) among male and female participants in Apete, a peri-urban community in Ibadan, Nigeria. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed respectively using SPSS ver. 20 and content analysis. Results: Most (67.2%) of the respondents were females, and 77.2% were not living with their older parents. Older parents of 32.4% of the respondents relied on children as a source of income, whereas nearly half (47.0%) of the respondents perceived the care of the elderly as government responsibility. Financial care (48.5%) from significant others was perceived the most unmet social needs of the elderly, while lack of money (44.6%) was perceived the cause of the unmet social needs of the elderly. There was significant relationship (χ2=0.056) between the average monthly income and the time frame the children give money to older parents. Conclusion: There exist social supports to the elderly in peri-urban Nigeria. The social support systems available to the elderly were influenced by the culture, blessing/prayer-needs from parents, and reciprocity factors.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Rollins
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Childhood Sexuality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Gender

The conclusion weaves together the arguments from previous chapters to examine the elasticity of childhood and gender socialization in other areas of the law. Child sexual abuse, childhood sexuality, Title IX, abortion rights, and sexting provide material for understanding how conceptions of childhood, marriage, and the family are changing. While the book shows how much has changed in the law and culture of marriage, much remains the same. Rather than undermining heterosexuality and the marital ideology associated with it, the legal language of the lesbian and gay marriage debate has instead shored up and strengthened the social scripts associated with heterosexuality, gender, reproduction, and childhood. Age, childhood, and gender have become the dominant markers of properly domesticated sexuality.

scholarly journals La ciudad y el ciudadano en Egipto

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Alonso y Royano
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Sobre Todo

El autor, sobradamente conocido entre nosotros por sus colaboraciones sobre su especialidad en el Derecho de la Antigüedad en el Próximo Oriente, fundamentalmente en el derecho de familia, hace en este trabajo un bosquejo sobre la ciudad y el ciudadano en el Egipto faraónico, materia muy querida para él, sobre un mundo que tan bien conoce, distinguiendo y sistematizando 3 modelos de ciudad: Las ciudades templo, las ciudades-fortaleza y las ciudades artesanos, dando así un panorama completo, junto a la existencia de aldeas y caserías diseminadas, los lugares fundamentales de poblamiento y núcleos de población que por sus características arquitectónicas, religiosas, administrativas y militares, conformaron la sociedasd egipcia, sobre todo en los Imperios Medio y Nuevo. Describe después al ciudadano como habitante de esas ciudades y sus costumbres alimenticias, de vestido y, en una palabra, el «estatus» social y la protección del derecho, dando una visión general —como no podía ser menos— dadas las dificultades de concretización en un imperio que duró 3.000 años a.C.J. Habitante de un mundo que, por otro lado, y a pesar del tiempo transcurrido, se nos hace cercano a nosotros.The author, known between us extremely well due to his collaborations on his speciality about the Right of Antiquity in the Middie East, fundamentally in the family rights, carries out in this work a study about the city and the citizens in the pharaonic Egipt, which is a much beloved matter for him, about a worid he knows so well, distinguishing and systematizing three typess of city: the temple cities, the fortress cities and the artisan cities, giving that way a complete panorama, together with the existence of villages and disseminated country houses, the inhabitated fundamental places and centres of population that because of their architectural, religious and military characteristics conformed the egyptian society, especially in the Middie and New Empires. Afíer he describes the citizen as an inhabitant of those cities and their food, costume customs, in one word the social «status» and the protection of the law, offering a general visión — as could not be less— because of the specification difficulties in an Empire that lasted 3.000 years B.C. Inhabitant of a worid that, although the course of time remains cióse to us.

scholarly journals The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (32) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Elma Jazz Elma-Macrohon
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
To Come

This study was undertaken with the aim to validate the assumption in JEM’s Theory on Intergenerational Visits to the Elderly, which states that Intergenerational visits promote socialization, that spirals into family solidarity, quality time shared; that affords the elderly parents more meanings, purposes, significance in their lives, the feeling of successfully aging, and make family relationship tighter everytime it happens. It is also to come up with narrative materials from the experiences of the informant-elderly during intergenerational visits, together with children, grandchildren, friends and relatives, before, during, and after the visitation. The method used is narrative inquiry. Interview schedules were used both in Filipino and English. There were recorded interviews and later transcriptions of them, then a story was woven entitled: “The Elderly and Life’s Channels: The Threads of Life”. There were six parents interviewed equal to six families. The characters in the narrations are representatives from these families. Findings proved that, “intergenerational visits to the elderly”, is a key factor to improve the social relationship between children and parents and between and among parents and children. Other findings were on the smooth and rough (conflicts) events in the family, but the latter mended by the faithful observance of intergenerational visits, which serve as the knot that binds family members together, because the former promotes socialization. It is recommended that Intergenerational visits be included in the yearly activities for the elderly people or the senior citizens, by their respective family members, often or even far in-between.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI PEKERJA PEREMPUAN (ISTRI) PADA SEKTOR INFORMAL DALAM MENINGKATKAN KESEJAHTERAAN KELUARGA (Studi Kelurahan Abeli Kecamatan Abeli Kota Kendari)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Thamrin Setiawan ◽  
Syaifuddin S. Kasim ◽  
Bakri Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

This study aims to determine the existence of women workers in the informal sector in improving family welfare in Abeli Village, Abeli District, Kendari City, to find out the driving factors and inhibitors of the existence of women workers (wives) in the informal sector in Abeli Village, Abeli District, Kendari City, and the welfare conditions of workers' families woman (wife) in the informal sector in Abeli Kacamatan Abeli Kelurahan of Kendari City. This type of research used in this research is descriptive qualitative research with data collection techniques, namely interviews, observation and documentation. The existence of female workers (wives) in the informal sector in improving family welfare in Abeli Sub-District Abeli District of Kendari City was influenced by several reasons including not requiring high education, the unavailability of jobs in accordance with the level of education, the ability to divide time between work and take care of the household and the social system applied by the community give equal roles between men and women in the workforce. Factors driving the existence of female workers (wives) in the informal sector in Abeli Sub-district, Abeli District, Kendari City include motivation to increase family income and for an economy that does not depend on husbands, while factors inhibiting the existence of women workers (wives) in the informal sector in increasing family welfare in Abeli Sub-district Abeli District of Kendari City is age. As for the family welfare conditions of female workers (wives) in the informal sector in Abeli Sub-District, Abeli District has been fulfilled. This can be seen from the fulfillment of material needs, namely clothing, food and shelter needs. Fulfillment of mental / spiritual needs, namely the spiritual needs of family members and the fulfillment of social needs, namely the need for feeling accepted by the community.

Senior South Koreans` Difficulties in Embracing the Internet: Need for Alternative Approaches

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Park Youn Min
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Policy Solutions

This study challenges the mainstream technocratic notion of the digital divide and its access-based policy solutions, which do not appreciate the different information-using capabilities, perceptions, and choices of the people concerned. This notion is examined through the lens of information as structured capital that requires Internet access to be complemented by people's information-using capabilities, inclinations, needs, knowledge, and beliefs, which must also complement each other to allow the effective use of information. Qualitative in-depth interviews with 30 senior South Koreans at a Senior Welfare Center suggest that the information capital possessed by these seniors is ill suited to responding to and taking advantage of Internet use. The social isolation of seniors provides them with neither incentives nor capabilities to restructure their information capital in the ways necessary for ongoing use. This finding sugests that digital divide policies for older people must shift their focus from technology per se toward more comprehensive approaches of dealing with the basic social needs of senior citizens.

Elder Abuse in the Iberian Peninsula and Bolivia: A Multicountry Comparative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (21-22) ◽  
pp. 4303-4326
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres ◽  
Rosa Carvalhal ◽  
Ruth Mary Gálvez-Rioja ◽  
África Ruiz-Gandara ◽  
Thomas Goergen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Persons ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
The Family

The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of abuse of vulnerable older persons in the family and community environment in the following regions—Spain (Andalusia-Córdoba), Portugal (Azores), and Bolivia (Santa Cruz de la Sierra)—and to identify risk factors and delineate a profile of abused older persons. For this, a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. The sample consisted of people in the age group 65 years plus living in the catchment areas of health centers. The following were used as instruments to collect data: the medical record of the patients of relevant health centers, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), daily activities autonomy test, adaptability, partnership, growth, affection, and resolve (APGAR) familiar test, The Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI) and the Social Work Evaluation Form. Multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify factors associated with abuse. Suspected abuse was identified in 6.9% of the elderly who participated in the study in Spain, 39% in Bolivia, and 24.5% in Azores. In all areas, studied psychological abuse was the most common type of abuse. In conclusion, although the prevalence of abuse to older people in the family and community environment differs in the areas studied, it is present in all countries and the data are comparable with other developing and European countries. The profile of the abused older persons appears to be similar in all countries.

Effectiveness of the BRIDGE Program: Support for Participation in Group Settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 7512520402p1-7512520402p1
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Schoen ◽  
Mim Ochsenbein
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Processing ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Bridge Program ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Program Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Date Presented Accepted for AOTA INSPIRE 2021 but unable to be presented due to online event limitations. The BRIDGE program is presented to bridge the social needs of children with sensory processing and integration challenges by providing services in dyads, triads, or quartets. This 12-session program focuses on six themes: whole-body listening, personal space, turn-taking, trading objects and toys, listening and communicating personal ideas, and sportsmanship. Data suggest an improvement in social skills and a reduction in the impact of the child’s behavior on the activities of the family. Primary Author and Speaker: Sarah A. Schoen Additional Authors and Speakers: Mim Ochsenbein

scholarly journals Red Tape Phenomenon of Social Securities Distribution During Covid-19: A Socio–Legal Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Mailinda Eka Yuniza ◽  
Aicha Grade Rebecca
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
Social Affairs

To distribute social aids during a time of a pandemic, red tapes or unnecessary bureaucratic layers needs to be eliminated because the situations demand flexibility. In fact, during the Covid-19 the Indonesian government struggled to hand the staple needs help due to various problems with the existing social aid system. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social and legal factors that create a red tape that hindered the implementations of distributions. This research uses a qualitative approach with data collection techniques of literature and statutory analysis. The result of this study shows that there is an interplay factor between administrative law on social policies and the bureau pathology(Bureaucratic disease) that infects the bureaucratic system of the Ministry of Social Affairs especially in the aspects of managerial, human resources, and tendencies to conduct unlawful actions aspects. The format of the law has proven to be ineffective to be used in a pandemic setting. Furthermore, there are tendencies of upholding the tight legal mechanism to share the responsibilities in between bottom-up government units which had created ineffective within the systems in times of a pandemic. Nevertheless, it shows that the law has already matured in governing the bureaucratic nature in the Ministry of Social Affairs. 

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