Legal Protection Of The Right Of Older Persons

Since the establishment of New China, particularly since reform and opening, along with our society, rapid economic development, people's living standards increased significantly improved health conditions, the proportion of elderly population is increasing rapidly. By 2003, China's elderly population over 60 years to reach 134 million,10% of the total population; 65 years over 94 million people, more than 7% of the total population, according to international standard, China has entered the natural aging Social threshold. February 12, 2006 "issued by the development of the cause of aging," White Paper, that the population of China has been aware of the urgency of the problem of aging. Aging population, even the developed countries in Europe and America, but also a headache for the Government's serious problem, this American scholar called "the history of emerging social phenomenon has not been. " In contrast, China is clearly greater the pressure, the Chinese population base, the development of fast aging, more than the absolute number of elderly population.Purpose and significance of this study is from the physical, mental and so effectively protect the legitimate rights of older persons to enable the elderly to share the social development of the material and spiritual civilization. This paper introduces the elderly, the concept of population aging and the elderly the right to the main content, from the legislative, judicial and law enforcement three aspects of the legal protection of the rights status of the elderly, and then points out the legal protection of rights of older persons there The main problem, through the rights of older persons in Japan and Germany learn from the outcome of legal protection and absorption of status for the protection of the rights of older persons, in accordance with the general principle and the principle of mutual contact, from the legislative, judicial and law enforcement, and related system of three proposed A sound system of protection of rights of the recommendations of the elderly and lead to deep thinking on the issue.