1. Health and human rights of older persons: challenges and opportunities

2. Key challenge Exclusion of older people at 3 critical levels:
1. As individuals
2. In sectoral policy making
3. In human rights monitoring framework

3. 1. Discrimination against individual older people

4. “We have to tell a lie when calling the ambulance.”

5. “They invent illnesses because they feel marginalised.”

6. “You are wasting the doctor’s time – you are not sick, just old.”

7. 2. Exclusion from sectoral policy making

8. Invisibility in the data (1)
HIV: 15 – 49
Violence against women: 18 – 49

9. Invisibility in the data (2)
Available data 32 country survey:
Use of health-care facilities: 50%
Numbers of geriatric wards: 44%
Older people’s health expenditure: 28%
Government expenditure disaggregated by age: 19%

10. 3. Invisibility in human rights monitoring framework

11. Attention by treaty bodies
Treaty Body
No. of references
CEDAW
295
CESCR 75
CAT 5
HRC 4
CERD 2

12. Inconsistent attention
CEDAW
CESCR
SR on IDPs
SR on housing
SR on E,S & A Ex.
SR on indig. people
Total no.
Right to Health 38 15 4 - 2 1 60

13. Opportunities States Parties: periodic reporting
Treaty Bodies: list of issues, constructive dialogues, concluding observations
Special procedures
UPR
HRC: Consider suggestions from OEWG - special rapporteur & convention