Research On The Rights Of The Elderly In China

The position of the elderly has declined in the course of the modernization, and there are many problems in the protection for the rights of the elderly in China. The thesis means to resolve the problem how to establish and protect the rights of the elderly in the modern law-ruled society. The thesis analyses the necessity and importance of the establishment of the rights of the elderly, outlines the system of the rights of the elderly, advances the viewpoint that the primary subject of the obligation has transferred from the family to the state, reviews the measures which our state has taken to realize the rights of the elderly, affirms the achievement meanwhile discovers the problems and puts forward the feasible suggestions.It is necessary for the society to establish the rights of the elderly. The thesis points out the reason why we think that the elderly is one of the vulnerable groups. It includes two factors: one is of physicality, the other is of sociality. The thesis advances that the decline of the position of the elderly is relevant to the modernization. We can not change the position unless we establish the rights of the elderly. Meanwhile, it is necessary to establish and protect the rights of the elderly for the construction of the harmonious society and the promotion of the traditional culture"xiao".The rights of the elderly have the special subjects of right, contents and subjects of obligation. The thesis defines the elderly according to sixty- year-old, analyses the groups of rural elderly, female elderly and senile persons and points out the diversification of the elderly. Considering the current...