# Global action for human rights-based care: protecting older persons’ mental health, dignity, and autonomy in the UN convention process - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0671 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: Global action for human rights-based care: protecting older persons’ mental health, dignity, and autonomy in the UN convention process | WCP 2026 Summary > The United Nations convention process offers a time-sensitive opportunity to move human rights from rhetoric to accountable practice in mental and brain health… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0671) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. EV0671 E-PosterGeriatricsExpert opinion and participatory discussion framework # Global action for human rights-based care: protecting older persons’ mental health, dignity, and autonomy in the UN convention process GLOBAL ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED CARE: PROTECTING MENTAL HEALTH, DIGNITY, AND AGENCY OF OLDER PERSONS IN THE UN CONVENTION PROCESS Presenter: Kiran Rabheru Country: Canada The United Nations convention process offers a time-sensitive opportunity to move human rights from rhetoric to accountable practice in mental and brain health care for older persons. The poster argues that the United Nations (UN) convention process offers a time-sensitive opportunity to embed human rights in care and support systems. It defines its aims as explaining why engagement with the UN is urgent, identifying intersecting rights violations, and translating principles into care and practice. The rationale presents a chain in which intersecting forms of discrimination—including ageism, prejudice against people with mental illness (mentalism), ableism, sexism, racism, classism, and heterosexism—lead to inequalities in mental and brain health, gaps in care and support, and, in turn, threats to dignity, autonomy, participation, belonging, and health equity. The method consists of a facilitated dialogue informed by brief expert assessments; the key questions address how intersecting prejudices undermine health, dignity, and autonomy, which priorities and risks should guide global action, and how participation can be ensured in ways that are sensitive to regional contexts, cultures, and resources. Older persons with lived experience are positioned as equal partners at the heart of the process; other partners include families and care partners, partners in clinical practice, research, education, advocacy, law, and policy, regional partners, and the UN, the World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, and civil society organizations. The expected outputs are shared priorities, actionable steps, and a framework for sustained collaboration; the action framework comprises recognizing rights, protecting mental and brain health, embedding care and support capacity within systems, and mobilizing globally. The next steps are to synthesize evidence and strengthen education, ensure the participation of people with lived experience, advance advocacy, partnerships, and regionally responsive implementation, and mobilize the Global Alliance for Rights-Based Care and Support for Older Persons. The poster’s call to action is to make human rights-based care and support measurable, teachable, actionable, and a lived reality in everyday practice and across systems. [View the original poster](https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/313) How to cite this study APA 7: Rabheru, K., Prasad, M. S. R., Mateos, R., Lavretsky, H., Swantek, S., & Thangaraju, S. (2026, September 23-26). Global action for human rights-based care: protecting mental health, dignity, and agency of older persons in the un convention process [E-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/313 Vancouver: Rabheru K, Prasad MSR, Mateos R, Lavretsky H, Swantek S, Thangaraju S. Global action for human rights-based care: protecting mental health, dignity, and agency of older persons in the un convention process [e-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. 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