Human beings go through stages of vulnerability during their evolution and development. Old age is one of these. The rights of older persons are acknowledged to a certain degree but have not yet been developed into an integral system like the rights of other groups, for instance the handicapped, have. Spanish legislation contemplates the rights of older persons to guarantee their social protection. The objective of this paper is to reveal the need of a single unified law to guarantee these rights. For this purpose, existing Spanish legislation has been reviewed, finding the underlying principles of this protection is based in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In current times older persons have ceased to be respected by their age and social position and sometimes find themselves socially excluded or legally unprotected. This circumstance claims a solution to avoid illtreatment. It calls for an institutional solution: the drafting of a charter of rights of the older person which would avoid behaviours that disregard this group, harming their dignity as individuals. It is difficult for older persons to gain respect for their participation as citizens because their social conditions are not equal to that of the rest of citizens who are allowed to make their rights effective and thus ensure their respect.

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对老年歧视者的法律保护

人类在进化和发展过程中会经历脆弱性阶段。老年就是其中之一。老年人的权利得到了一定程度的承认，但尚未像其他群体（例如残疾人）的权利那样发展成为一个完整的系统。西班牙立法考虑了老年人保障其社会保护的权利。本文的目的是揭示需要一个统一的法律来保障这些权利。为此目的，对西班牙现行立法进行了审查，发现这种保护的基本原则以1948年《世界人权宣言》为基础。当前，老年人不再受到年龄和社会地位的尊重，有时发现自己在社会上受到排斥或在法律上不受保护。这种情况要求一种避免虐待的解决方案。它呼吁采取一种体制性的解决方案：起草老年人权利宪章，避免出现无视这一群体的行为，损害他们作为个人的尊严。老年人很难尊重他们作为公民的参与，因为他们的社会条件与其他被允许使其权利有效并因此确保尊重的公民的社会条件不同。