title: [The same law for all citizens].
abstract: On December 15, 2006, the Official Spanish State Register, the "Boletín Oficial del Estado BOE", published Law 39/2006 The Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Treatment for persons who live under conditions making them dependent on someone else; this law is popularly known as the "Dependency Law". At issue here is a law whose objective is to provide an answer to an ever growing necessity in modern society: to enact a treatment model for persons who suffer varying degrees of dependency on others. By means of this law, the authorities hope to guarantee some quality of living quotas for all those people who suffer some kind of limitation in their ability to carry out daily life activities. Included in the articles of this law are important improvements for informal caretakers, that is those persons who have the responsibility to care for a relative who must face life suffering from dependency on others.
authors.affiliation: Consejo General de Enfermería de España.
authors.forename: Máximo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: González Jurado
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006296:Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain