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To mark the World Awareness Day on Elder Abuse, AGE (AGE is a European network of around 165 organisations of and for people aged 50+  representing directly over 30 million older people in Europe) is co-organising, together with the Council of Europe and the European Commission, a stakeholder seminar on older people's human rights in the area of long-term care. The event, which will take place in Brussels on 23th June, will examine how to strenghten legal protection against elder abuse.

Following on from World Awareness Day on Elder Abuse (15 June), the 47-nation Council of Europe, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion and AGE Platform Europe are jointly organising a stakeholder seminar focusing on human rights for older persons, particularly looking at issues related to long-term care.

The aim of the event is to raise awareness and understanding among policy-makers, civil society and other relevant stakeholders of the changing political and legal framework in this area,  and to discuss how best to protect older persons from abuse through a rights-based approach to long-term care. 

The seminar will include presentations of the Council of Europe’s recent recommendation on human rights for older persons – linked to relevant case law under the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter – and the new report on long-term care from the European Union’s Social Protection Committee.

For more information, including online registrations, please go to http://www.age-platform.eu/age-work/age-policy-work/dignified-ageing/age-work/2143-save-the-date-human-rights-for-older-persons-in-europe-who-cares