ABSTRACT
An age-friendly society is one in which older persons are valued, respected and actively supported to participate in their community. Access to justice and legal assistance are essential to achieving this ideal. Such access provides mechanisms to enforce older persons’ right to live according to age-friendly goals, which are explicit within those ideals as discrete components of age-friendly domains. This chapter examines the meaning of access to justice and, in particular, its meaning for older persons and the barriers they face. The chapter explores access to justice as a human right and as an aspect of age-friendliness and presents some solutions to improve older persons’ access to justice.
