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Facts on law and ageing quiz
— older people's knowledge of their legal rights | | Author(s) | Israel Doron, Perla Werner |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 28, part 8, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp 1159-1174 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ASO |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Rights [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Quantitative studies ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Until now, no attempt has been made to develop a research tool to provide a broad descriptive picture of the actual knowledge that older people have of their legal rights. This article describes a first attempt, conducted in Israel, to create such a tool, known as the 'Facts on Law and Ageing Quiz (FoLAQ). This quiz was developed to provide a short and standardised tool for assessing older people's knowledge of their legal rights in Israel. It is also intended to serve as a research platform for similar studies in other countries worldwide. The research was designed using a quantitative approach. The research population consisted of a randomly chosen sample of 227 adult Jews, aged 50+, living in the community in Israel. The participants were asked 20 multiple-choice questions on central legal issues, and 13 closed questions on their socio-demographic background, by means of a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI). The findings revealed that, in general, the majority of older people in Israel know little about their legal rights. Specifically, the most vulnerable groups in this context were the less educated, the poor, the older-old and women. Finally, the findings also showed that knowledge gaps were particularly obvious with regard to national legal schemes covering social security in old age, and the rights of older people regarding Israel's national health insurance scheme. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081021206 A |
| Classmark | BG: TOB: IKR: 4C: 3DQ: 7H6 |
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