(In)Accessibility of Cultural and Social Activities to Elderly Persons in Urban and Rural Areas in Serbia

Batrićević, Ana (2023) (In)Accessibility of Cultural and Social Activities to Elderly Persons in Urban and Rural Areas in Serbia. In: Elderly People and Discrimination: Prevention and Reaction. Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research ; Vojvodina Bar Association, Belgrade ; Novi Sad, pp. 525-544. ISBN 978-86-80756-57-8

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Abstract

The right to take part in cultural life of the community represents one of fundamental human rights that is guaranteed to all persons, regardless of their characteristics, including age. Unfortunately, elderly persons are frequently facing some sort of discrimination in their attempts to access cultural and social activities in their places of residence, including both – urban as well as rural areas. This is caused by disproportion in the distribution of places where elderly persons can meet and attend cultural events, physical barriers such as distance and inappropriate infrastructure, absence of willingness of relevant stakeholders to adjust cultural venues to the needs of elderly persons, lack of organization of transport of elderly persons to the locations where cultural and social interaction take place, insufficient number of professional or informal caregivers who could assist elderly persons to access cultural centers etc. In this paper, the author highlights key challenges when it comes to the access of elderly persons to places of cultural and social interactions in Serbia, emphasizing that the existence of these obstacles in a modern democratic society represents the discrimination of elderly persons and suggests the most appropriate manners in which the situation in this field could be improved in accordance with international human rights standards.

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