At the age of 80, he held a swimming card. At the age of 82, he wanted to be rejected.

In 2020, a citizen in Nanjing held a swimming card at a fitness hall at the age of 80. At the time of the renewal of this spring, he was rejected by the fitness hall with his age over 80 years old. He believes that the museum was discriminated against the elderly, and he brought it to court under the anger (see the Yangzi Evening News and Zi Niu News reported on July 20). On July 26, the Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission spoke on the WeChat public account.

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The Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission believes that this incident reminds us: In the context of the aging of society, many industries and public facilities have no clear and specific safety standards for elderly groups. Compared with young people, the elderly have more free time, and they need to be seen by the fitness needs they want to exercise.

The Jiangsu Provincial Consumer Protection Commission believes that the elderly group enjoying sports guarantee is one of the basic rights of consumers. The "Sports Law" in my country also stipulates that "the whole society should care and support minors, women, elderly people, and disabled to participate in national fitness. Activity". Under the current situation where the consumer group of the elderly and the gradually deepening of the elderly movement, there is no discrimination protection for the elderly in fitness places, and the right to obtain equal treatment is even more important. Operators and other operators in the gym have rejected the consumption of elderly groups through "one -size -fits -all" method. They neither meet the status quo nor the legal provisions. It is a typical manifestation of consumers through unfair operating advantages.

The theme of this year's consumer rights protection is "common consumption fairness", which requires strengthening the protection of special consumer groups such as the elderly. The operator does not receive elderly consumers, which objectively reflects the industry's concerns about operating risks, and the actual situation of lack of confidence in consumption or even personal injury disputes; it also reflects the status quo of special groups such as elderly consumers in the society. These all need widespread concern in society and reverse their ideas together. In this context, the Provincial Consumer Protection Commission believes that enterprises should accurately grasp the increasing situation of the elderly consumer market, from improving the formulation of contracts, introducing pre -exercise health monitoring systems, expanding the supply of venue facilities for the elderly ", Make the" cake "bigger and bigger together. At the same time, all parties including sports, business, consumer rights and interests, etc., should also work together to provide sufficient concern and mechanism construction for the elderly's fitness. long.

It is understood that for a long time, the Provincial Consumer Protection Commission has continued to pay attention to the traffic protection point of the elderly. Through the production of publicity videos, the issuing consumer manuals, and publicity posters, it has carried out a series of publicity and education activities in the old field. In the future, the Provincial Consumer Protection Commission will increase the supervision of illegal merchants and behaviors through consumer disputes, typical case exposure and other means, and continue to do a good job in the protection of the rights and interests of elderly consumers.

Correspondent Xu Yue Yangzi Evening News/Zi Niu Journalist Ma Yan

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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