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The Human Rights Act
— changing lives | | Author(s) | Lucy Matthews, Sonya Sceats, Sanchita Hosali |
| Corporate Author | British Institute of Human Rights - BIHR |
| Publisher | The British Institute of Human Rights, London, December 2008 |
| Pages | 27 pp |
| Source | The British Institute of Human Rights, Kings College London, 7th Floor, Melbourne House, 46 Aldwych, London WC2B 4LL. Download: http://www.bihr.org.uk/sites/default/files/BIHR%20... |
| Keywords | Rights [elderly] ; Law ; Case studies. |
| Annotation | Using some 30 case studies arranged by general theme, this report highlights positive changes that the Human Rights Act 1998 is making to individual lives. Each case study outlines how matters were resolved. On protecting human dignity, one example describes how an older woman in hospital was strapped into a wheelchair against her wishes, amounting to degrading treatment in contravention of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). On using human rights where resources are an issue, two cases involve older people: an older woman to be moved from hospital to residential care home against her wishes; and an older couple split up by local authority after 65 years of marriage. Challenging the blanket use of tilt-back chairs in a nursing home is one example of using human rights to challenge blanket policies. On protecting human rights in the context of contracted out services, describes how a residential care home refused to bathe a larger woman. On supporting public sector staff to take individual needs into account in decision-making, a consultant convinces staff to respect routine of an 89 year old with dementia who shouted when left in bed in an NHS nursing home until 11am. Other themes are: challenging discrimination; promoting participation; challenging brutality; taking positive steps to protect human rights; using human rights to support family and private life; and fair procedures. The rights protected by the Act are listed on the back cover. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090302003 E |
| Classmark | IKR: VR: 69P |
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