Acquire specific knowledge within the scope of the rights of the elderly at national and European Union level; Acquire specific technical knowledge within the scope of civil law and criminal law; Develop skills to legally protect the elderly; Appreciate everyday life situations of an elderly person and legally frame them; Critically assess the legal system for protecting the elderly.
Programme
1. Basic legal concepts 2. Analysis of the regime and main national, regional and international legal documents on fundamental rights 3. The legal and civil protection of the elderly 3.1. Personality, Capacity, Disability and their supply 3.2. Civil responsability 3.3. Marriage and property regime 3.4. The foods 3.5. Death and its legal consequences (succession).
4. The legal and criminal protection of the elderly: crimes against the elderly and ways of reacting. 5. Reference to the Mental Health law and Compulsive Hospitalization. 6. The living will. 7. Current issues: ageism, the elderly at risk and the sustainability of social security.
Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives
This Curricular Unit aims to provide the student with technical-legal knowledge to protect the elderly/aged person and simultaneously provide the student in this area with essential legal knowledge to carry out their professional activity (namely, in the management of support centers for the elderly and provision of gerontological consultancy services to the most varied entities) in its various aspects
Main literature
Mafalda Miranda Barbosa;Maiores Acompanhados, Gestlegal , 2018. ISBN: 9789898951007
CARVALHO, Ana Sofia de Magalhães ;O direito fundamental à proteção na velhice através dos impostos : fiscalidade na velhice.. ISBN: 978-3-330-77518-3
J.P. Remédio Marques;;Em torno do estatuto da pessoa idosa no direito português - obrigação de alimentos e segurança social, Magister Editora, 2008. ISBN: ( in Escritos de Direito das Famílias, Magister Editora, 2008, pp. 345 a 360.) (http://www.ite.edu.br/ripe_arquivos/ripe47.pdf)
Ana Sofia Carvalho;A reforma das pensões na União Europeia, RED, 2014 (in http://www.cije.up.pt/content/reforma-das-pens%C3%B5es-na-uni%C3%A3o-europeia)
Rui Nunes e Helena Pereira de Melo;Testamento vital, Almedina, 2011
APAV;Manual TÍTONO: Para o Atendimento de Pessoas Idosas Vítimas de Crime e de Violência, APAV, 2010. ISBN: 978-972-8852-32-0 (http://www.apav.pt/pdf/Titono_PT.pdf)
Ana Sofia Carvalho;O Estatuto do Idoso no Brasil, FDUM (em curso de publicação)
Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto;Teoria Geral do Direito Civil, Coimbra Editora, 2012. ISBN: 9789723221022
Sibila Marques;Discriminação da Terceira Idade, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2011
Supplementary Bibliography
Ana Sofia Carvalho;O idoso e a tributação do rendimento em 2014, RED, 2014
João Carlos Loureiro;Adeus ao Estado Social?, , Wolters Kluwer/Coimbra Editora, 2010
Paula Guimarães;Estatuto dos Idosos no Direito Português ou Fim do Idoso Crepuscular, 1998 (in revista Geriatria, n.º 101, 1998, 11 – 20)
Paula Guimarães;Os direitos dos idosos, 1999 (In Envelhecer, um direito em construção. Lisboa, 1999)
Learning Methods
Theoretical exposition followed by critical discussion and evaluation and study of practical cases.
Assessment Components
Avaliação apenas com exame final
Assessment Components
Description
Type
Time (hours)
Conclusion Date
Attendance (estimated)
Lessons
34
Total:
34
Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes
This Curricular Unit aims at skills in the area of knowledge and ability to analyze the legal framework in the area of Civil Law, Criminal Law and all branches of law that regulate the rights and duties of the elderly, argumentative skills necessary to support opinions and opinions. family follow-up plans, support for judicial decision-making and operational competences in the field of access to rights and guarantees.
