China's Elderly Rights Protection Reader

Author: Tong Guobao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The book is divided into three parts, totaling approximately 200,000 words.
Part 1: An Overview of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly." This part is divided into five sections:
1. The Purpose of Legislation: It focuses on explaining the legal provisions and their basis regarding the legislative purpose, age definition, and content of protection.
2. Family Elderly Care: It emphasizes the "three justifications" for adhering to family-based elderly care, the "six rights" requiring special protection for the elderly, the "six obligations" of caregivers, and the "six acts of infringement" prohibited against the elderly.
3. Social Security: It highlights the regulations on establishing a senior social insurance system, providing support for "three-no elderly" (those without family, property, or livelihood), establishing elderly welfare facilities, and formulating local policies for respecting and caring for the elderly.
4. Active Elderly Care: It focuses on the legal systems promoting "integration of care and support" and "promoting care through service."
5. Legal Aid: It explains four types of assistance for the elderly: priority of lawsuits, the possibility of deferring, reducing, or exempting court fees, access to legal aid, and the right to have judgments enforced first.
Part 2: An Overview of China's Current Retirement Systems. This part primarily discusses the regulations of the current retirement system, the current retirement system, and the current retirement system as three elderly care security systems.
Part 3: Selected Documents on Rights and Interests Protection. It selects several documents related to the protection of elderly rights and interests.