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The Rights of the Elderly - the disabled
1 - Protection of the Elderly
Enactment of the law of July 12, 1993 amending certain
articles of the Code of Personal Status, article 43 of which extends the benefit of alimony to maternal grand parents.
- Enactment of law no. 94-114 of October 31, 1994 pertaining
to the protection of the elderly. This is equivalent to a code of rights of senior citizens, aimed at strengthening
family solidarity and helping make it possible to keep such people at home for their greater good, improving the
institutional assistance available to them, and giving them indispensable health care coverage.
- Social welfare coverage through the social security
funds.
- The instituting of continuing material assistance for
the needy elderly who live at home.
- The instituting of material assistance for the host
families of needy elderly persons who have no personal family support.
- Assistance to the elderly under the national program
of assistance for the needy families.
- Creation of multi-disciplinary mobile teams to provide
home medical care for the elderly.
- Implementation of a program to improve the conditions
under which the elderly are cared for in special homes (of which there are 11).
- Free care and hospitalization in public health-care
facilities for all needy elderly persons.
- Organization of the conditions for the creation and
functioning of private establishments for the protection of the elderly.
- Instituting of a Geriatrics certificate at the Faculty
of Medecine of Sfax (1995).
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