Derechos humanos del adulto mayor en el ámbito familiar colombiano en el marco del envejecimiento demográfico

Abstract

The article reviews the changes in the contemporary family by analyzing the impact of the demographic increase of the elderly on the family organization. It is based on a thematic narrative dissertation of national and international theoretical postulates on family manifestations and their members based on a documentary-bibliographic methodology. The epistemic perspectives gathered here weave points of encounter between law, demography, and sociology, with the great tendencies of population change. There is evidence of a tension between the needs of the elderly and their inalienable rights in a family network affected by the absence of an ethic for the shared common good. The human rights of the elderly in the area of family life are promoted from an axiological perspective.