Alan S. Gutterman

Achieving the Human Right to a Caring Society in an Aging America (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Caregiving includes activities undertaken by others to ensure that those with a significant ongoing loss of physical or mental capacity can maintain a level of ability to be and to do what they have reason to value and involves a variety of services provided in a number of places and by different groups of caregivers ranging from care in the home from unpaid family members and friends (mostly female), which is the most common form of long-term care; home-based services provided by paid caregivers, including caregivers found informally or through home health care agencies and healthcare professionals (i.e., nurses, home health care aides and therapists); and services provided by health and care professionals in institutional settings such as nursing homes or community-based adult day centers. Caregiving for older persons is an important issue, regardless of how and where the care is provided, since the data shows that the global population over age 65 will more than double over the next three decades, and steps need to be taken to determine the best means to fund and otherwise support the services that will be needed to maintain the physical and mental wellbeing of the most vulnerable members of this group. While there is no international human rights instrument specifically addressing long-term care for older persons, the human rights of older persons with respect to long-term care can be derived from a combination of several different rights explicitly recognized in international human rights. This book discusses the human rights law foundation for providing older persons with high quality long-term care alternatives and considers the current state of institutional care in nursing homes and assisted living centers, which is especially relevant in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The book also describes the sweeping impact that caregiving provided outside of institutions by family members and friends has on all aspects of society and the steps that are being proposed to reduce economic, physical, and psychological stress on millions of older persons and their caregivers through development of an "infrastructure of care" and creation of "caregiving-friendly workplaces".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Older Persons' Rights Project
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223217817
• Artikelnr.: 69058350

Autorenporträt

This book was written by Alan S. Gutterman, whose prolific output of practical guidance and tools for legal and financial professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, and investors has made him one of the best-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace. Alan has authored or edited over 300 book-length works on entrepreneurship, business law and transactions, sustainability, impact investment, business and human rights and corporate social responsibility, civil and human rights of older persons, and international business for several publishers including Thomson Reuters, Practical Law, Kluwer, Aspatore, Oxford, Quorum, ABA Press, Aspen, Sweet & Maxwell, Euromoney, Business Expert Press, Harvard Business Publishing, CCH, and BNA. His cornerstone work, Business Transactions Solution, is an online-only product available and featured on Thomson Reuters' Westlaw, the world's largest legal content platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of a business. Alan has extensive experience as a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large business enterprises, and has also held senior management positions with several technology-based businesses including service as the chief legal officer of a leading international distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and as the chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company. He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, and he has also launched and oversees projects relating to promoting the civil and human rights of older persons and a human rights-based approach to entrepreneurship. He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and he is also a Credentialed Professional Gerontologist (CPG). For more information about Alan and his activities, please contact him directly at [e-mail], follow him on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangutterman/), and visit his personal website at www.alangutterman.com to view a comprehensive listing of his works and subscribe to receive updates. Many of Alan's research papers and other publications are also available through SSRN and Google Scholar.