Access to Justice: The People's Principle: How access to justice shapes--and challenges--the civil lives of older adults.

HUMAN rights; CIVIL rights; INTELLECT; PUBLIC opinion; SOCIAL justice; ACCESS to information

The concept of access to justice is difficult for most people to articulate, especially as it relates to older adults. This article outlines its meaning, how various entities define and measure it, and details how this issue of Generations is organized around the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative conceptual framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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