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entitle the poor aged from 60 years old the rights to receive appropriate assistance from the
government, and in Section 71 to specify the duty of the government to provide good
quality of living for the people, and (3) the National Older Persons Act of 2003 to promote

and support the older persons the rights as stated in Section 11. Accordingly under the Act,
the relevant government agencies, state enterprises, local authorities will provide services for
the older persons protected by their laws or regulations; the National Older Persons
Committee was established to approve the services provided and proposed to the Cabinet

the policies and master plans on the protection, promotion and support on the status, rolls,
and activities related to older persons both in the public and private sectors, and family
institution to take part in caring the older persons, etc.. The Section 15 of the National Older
Persons Act were amended in 2017, and the 2% excise tax collected from alcohols and

tobacco was added into the Older Persons Fund in order to increase the living allowances
for the low income older persons. Thus, the movements by all agencies’ activities and
establishment of laws, orders, announcements, regulations have been voluntarily conducted
under the National Older Persons Act of 2003.

3) The reviews on the best practices in protection of the rights of older persons from
discrimination on age from the 6 country case studies, i.e., Singapore, Japan, United States of
America, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, found that in every country the protection
of the rights of older persons in 3 dimensions are available and common: (1) on

employment dimension, the extension of retirement age to 65 or 67 years old or the
abolishment of retirement age, (2) the establishment of a social security system, which
composes of social insurance (the benefits to the contributors of the insurance premiums
from their payrolls tax as pensions for their retirement or for disability), health insurance (the

benefits for medical cares to the contributors), and (3) social welfare (the services provided
by the government for free to the poor or low income older persons by concrete criteria,
e.g. poverty thresholds or minimum income thresholds and other qualifications such as
family size).

4) From the survey on the older person samples on their opinions about the
protection of the rights of older persons, the main findings are as followed:
(1) Discrimination on age: Most of the older person respondents (more than 90%
of them) have never experienced the discrimination against them, neither from people in the

family, in the working place, in the community (e.g. neighbors, people in the community),
and nor from those in the society (e.g. government officials/employees, people they contact