Chapter 21 The European Union’s Approach towards Ageism

Georgantzi, Nena

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_21

Chapter 21 The European Union’s Approach towards Ageism

dc.creator	Georgantzi, Nena
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-27T16:05:24Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-27T16:05:24Z
dc.date.created	2018
dc.description.abstractenglish	Age counts among the non-discrimination grounds that the European Union (EU) is equipped and mandated to fight based on its treaties. At the same time age discrimination is the only form of inequality that is widely accepted as normal, legitimate, and justifiable. This chapter argues that the EU is far from delivering its promise for a “society for all ages” and without discrimination. Despite a promising framework provided by its founding treaties, the EU has an asymmetric legal and policy response to the challenges of old age. This chapter discusses how the Union’s conceptualization of ageing and older people and its narrow agenda to alleviate ageism are susceptible to prejudice. Based on a substantive understanding of equality, it maintains that in order to tackle the structural barriers that perpetuate ageism, the EU needs to act in a wide range of policy areas, and human rights must be put at the forefront of such efforts. It proposes using article 25 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which enshrines “the rights of the elderly’” as the normative imperative on which a more substantive application of age equality needs to be based. A human rights-based approach can become the EU’s antidote to ageism as it guarantees an in-depth analysis of how EU law and policies affect the rights of older people and what further action is needed to materialize them, taking due account of both individual and public responsibility.	spa
dc.format.extent	28 páginas	spa
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	spa
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_21
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-319-73820-8
dc.identifier.other	https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73820-8_21
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/16922
dc.language.iso	eng	spa
dc.publisher	Springer Nature	spa
dc.relation.references	Georgantzi N. (2018) The European Union’s Approach towards Ageism. In: Ayalon L., Tesch-Römer C. (eds) Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_21
dc.rights.accessrights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	spa
dc.rights.creativecommons	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
dc.rights.local	Abierto (Texto Completo)	spa
dc.subject	Sociologia	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Envejecimiento activo	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Derechos humanos	spa
dc.subject.lemb	Discriminación por edad	spa
dc.title	Chapter 21 The European Union’s Approach towards Ageism	spa
dc.type.coar	http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33	spa

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