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Addressing age barriers
— an international comparison of legislation against age discrimination in the field of goods, facilities and services | | Author(s) | Richard Baker, Peter Jensen, Anouk Mulder |
| Corporate Author | Age Concern England - ACE; DaneAge Association; LBL, Dutch expertise centre on age and society; Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe |
| Publisher | Age Concern England, London, November 2004 |
| Pages | 191 pp |
| Source | Download from website (Oct 07): http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/068A68471C... |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Services ; Consumer ; Law ; Comparison ; Australia ; Belgium ; Ireland ; Canada ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The expert group on discrimination of AGE, the European Older People's Platform, has been gathering examples of older people's exclusion from obtaining goods, facilities and services. The authors of this report were asked to research legislation in five jurisdictions where age discrimination in these fields had been made unlawful. They were invited to consider the scope and context of such legislation, and to examine its context and impact. Findings are presented in chronological order, beginning with Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Ontario, Canada, and finally the United States of America, which has the oldest law relating to age discrimination in this field. Age discrimination is defined in all its forms (e.g. direct, indirect, harassment, victimisation), the areas covered are defined, and exemptions are clearly set out. The report notes that exemptions have often been obtained as the result of lobbying for specific industries (e.g. insurance), so that there is a a certain amount of compromise in the legislation that has been passed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071107513 E |
| Classmark | B:TOB: I: WY: VR: 48: 7YA: 76E: 763: 7S: 7T |
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