Elderly Social Protection. Lebanon as a Case Study

Abstract

In this thesis, we address one of the major issues facing the globe’s population, embodied by the demographic shift toward aging societies. This shift presents major challenges to national social protection systems as these systems are directly linked to the coverage of the social risks of aging. The first part aims to draw a theoretical framework intended to study elderly population from a human rights perspective. After tackling social protection as a concept from the different approaches that modelled the welfare state, we elaborate in the second part the previously drawn theoretical framework on the contextual elements of Lebanon as a case study. Combining to the secondary data analysis a primary data collection was acquired through a survey that was guided to assess the perception and practices of older persons as well as persons aged 64 and less over issues related to their current socio-economic situation from a social protection aspect, under the light of the Lebanese crisis.