HOUSING AND ELDER LAW: TRIALISTIC LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

Authors

  • María Isolina Dabove

Keywords:

Law, Old age, Housing

Abstract

Main objective. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that housing constitutes a complex legal institution that has a three-dimensional impact on the law of old age. Methodology. From the methodology of the
Trialist theory of the legal world developed by Goldschmidt and Ciuro Caldani, housing can be understood as a material, symbolic and functional object of study. The material dimension alludes to the closed and covered space in which each person establishes his or her center of life, which we will call "home" here. The symbolic dimension refers to the affective and biographical meanings that the house represents for the person who lives in it. It is, therefore, the "home". Finally, housing has a functional dimension from which the development of life is organized and conditioned, so that housing is also a "habitat". Results. The relationship between older people and their home is uniquely critical and dynamic in all three dimensions (home-home-habitat) because of the evolution of old age itself. The following pages are intended to recognize these problems in the light of the law of old age and to provide a legal diagnosis of the challenges and remedies.

Author Biography

  • María Isolina Dabove

    Lawyer by the National University of Rosario-Argentina. Doctor in Law from the Universidad Carlos
    III of Madrid. Independent Researcher of CONICET at the Faculty of Law of the National University
    from Buenos Aires-Argentina. Director of the Diploma in Old Age Law at the Faculty of Law and
    Social Sciences of the National University of Cordoba. Director of the Center for Research in Law
    of the National University of Rosario

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Published

2019-11-29

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Doctrine and research

How to Cite

HOUSING AND ELDER LAW: TRIALISTIC LEGAL PERSPECTIVE. (2019). Revista De La Facultad De Derecho, 10(2), 42-59. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refade/article/view/27878