The human rights of older persons in long-term care – Aspects regarding prohibition of torture, degrading or inhuman treatment
The human rights of older persons in long-term care – Aspects regarding prohibition of torture, degrading or inhuman treatment

Summary/Abstract: Although there is no international document of legal value that explicitly refers to the rights of older persons, their rights are enshrined and referred to in other international and regional human rights conventions. The prohibition of torture or inhuman and degrading treatments not only imposes on public authorities the obligation not to subject the person to ill-treatment. But it also has implications for the measures that public authorities, including institutions involved in healthcare, must take to prevent and, if necessary, to investigate suspicious abuses or ill-treatment.

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