NNSEJC Principles
- Elder justice covers a broad spectrum, beginning with freedom from abuse, neglect and exploitation, and encompassing elder rights, autonomy, and equitable access to services, resources and opportunities.
- We promote both preventative and remedial approaches to elder abuse, neglect, exploitation, and the violation of elders’ rights that can be sustained over time, that mitigate harm, and that strengthen families, social networks, and communities.
- All public policies, including those related to housing, health care, zoning, transportation, disaster planning, and climate change, must address older adults’ age-related needs and challenges.
- We acknowledge that historical and systemic inequalities and traumas accumulate across the lifespan and affect people's health and security in advanced age. Programs and services for older Americans must, therefore, be informed by elders’ lived experiences.
- Elder justice requires non-partisan, multidisciplinary, and cross-sectoral collaboration.