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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Old age; The intersection of age and race and sex; Older people in family law; Care vulnerability and age; Rights and state institutions; Relationships in old age; Notes; References; PART 1: Care, vulnerability and age; 1. Embracing vulnerability in ageing: our route to flourishing; Pursuing invulnerability and oppressing older adults; Reconceiving vulnerability: openness, affectability, and changeability; Embracing vulnerability: connection, strength, and development |
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Vulnerability in law: beyond deficiency and weaknessConclusion; References; Cases; 2. The contractualisation of care in an ageing world; Introduction; Family Agreements; Family Agreements: the way forward?; Bibliography; Cases; Legislation; 3. Ageing, vulnerability and care: a view from social gerontology; Introduction; Longer life, changing needs; Dependency and the need for care in later life; Crisis in the market for care; The public/private divide of care: blurred boundaries; Conclusion; Bibliography; 4. Financial abuse of older persons: a criminal law perspective; Introduction |
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1 What is financial abuse of older persons?2 The role of the criminal law; 3 The limits of the criminal law; 4 The argument for fraud by abuse of position to be read in a vulnerable person-protective mode; References; Cases; 5. Safeguarding in older age; Introduction; A new era for safeguarding; Defining abuse; Safeguarding â#x80;#x93; what do we know about age and gender; Elder abuse or safeguarding; Elder abuse or domestic violence; Domestic violence as a safeguarding issue; Conclusion; References; Cases; PART 2: Rights and state institutions |
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6. Accountability, social justice, and social care decision-making: reflections on the responsive stateAccessing adult social care services; Accountability and the role of law; Judicial review; Vulnerability and older people; Moving towards substantive equality and social justice â#x80;#x93; the role of the judiciary?; The role of the judiciary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Cases; 7. Revisiting the feminist critique of rights: lessons for a new older personsâ#x80;#x99; convention?; Introduction; Feminist criticisms of human rights; Feminist criticisms and old age; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Cases |
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8. Impoverishing careIntroduction; Inequality in older age; Addressing poverty: the evolution of social care policy; Deepening inequalities through austerity; Entrenching poverty: impoverishing providers and workers?; Crisis?; Addressing inequalities and impoverishment though regulation; Intervention to support social solidarity and distributive justice; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 9. Older prisoners, gender, and family life; Introduction; Maintaining family links; Gender issues; Health and social care issues; Accommodating older prisoners with disabilities |
| Summary |
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected; addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues which might be important for younger people are not necessarily the same as those for older people. The significance of family, the nature of family life, and the understanding of self in terms of one's relationships, tend to change over the life course. For example, the state may play an increasing role in the lives of older people - as access to services, involvement in work and the community, the ability to live independently, and to form or maintain caring relationships, are all impacted by law and policy. This collection therefore challenges the standard models of family life and family law that have been developed within a child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family lawyers and students interested in issues around family law, ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists working in these areas |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Older people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain
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Domestic relations -- Great Britain
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Domestic relations
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Older people -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clough, Beverley, editor
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Herring, Jonathan, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351717502 |
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1351717502 |
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9781315179827 |
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1315179822 |
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9781351717489 |
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1351717480 |
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9781351717496 |
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1351717499 |
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