How To Use Elderly In A Sentence

Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients. Times, Sunday Times
The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times
She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida.
Mr Smith hopes that his campaign will attract the support of all organisations for the elderly or those on low incomes.
We salute the flag, honer our military and are for taking care of our elderly, military and avoiding socialism. Obama invites senators from both parties to discuss vacancy

A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
The adult members of society are under curfew and the elderly under house arrest: feral youth has taken over.
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
The evening takes the form of a memory play told by the elderly Kat, now a shoeshine boy working the streets, who looks back at his younger self.
It is frequently assumed that elderly persons lose their sexual desires or that they are physically unable to perform.
There were also reports of increasing calls to personal alarm services from elderly and vulnerable people. Times, Sunday Times
Post offices serve many functions apart from postal services and many elderly people cannot travel a great distance to reach one.
Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand.
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
More intensive rehabilitation activities with chronic and elderly patients were ruled out.
Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
Another organized a Chore Service that paid neighborhood kids to do chores for the elderly.
The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension, with supplementary benefit.
Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
An ineffective flu jab given to millions of elderly people last year has been blamed for a record number of deaths over the winter. Times, Sunday Times
I know they can enhance reading, especially for the elderly because the font size can be enlarged. Times, Sunday Times
If you have elderly relatives do it for them too. The Sun
However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
Please give your seat to an elderly or disabled person if they require it.
The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
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The group is for elderly people aged 55 and over.
Two different points to consider For many elderly patients it will be decided that cardiac surgery is not clinically indicated.
I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes.
Fear of crime imprisons many elderly people in their homes.
What about encouraging student nurses to spend time in nursery schools or elderly care homes? Times, Sunday Times
An elderly monk presented with a sharp thoracic back pain of sudden onset and shortness of breath.
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
He heard an elderly woman and a child were among residents in neighbouring flats when the fire started.
General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family.
Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
He stood behind an elderly man who was arguing over whether or not his bowel condition was serious enough to warrant surgery, or something of the like.
Janet had also done voluntary community work for her local church group, helping the elderly. AFTERMATH
The last is particularly common in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy.
They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with.
An elderly woman was standing behind him, frail and stooped, her thinning silver hair as light as goose down. AMAGANSETT
Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
This afternoon, whilst I was chatting to an elderly couple who wanted directions to somewhere, my eyes wandered to the car park verge and espied a single solitary daffodil blooming in the late winter sun.
Dystonia, parkinsonism, and hyperkinesia all occur in elderly, untreated people.
The dental care of the elderly, the sick and the debilitated is a matter of great importance.
The Oregon experiment was introduced to ensure a basic level of health care for poor and elderly people.
So let's push for means-tested benefits, and hope that social security slowly but surely shrinks and evolves to a welfare system for the needy elderly. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A rising number of elderly patients are being hospitalised after going hungry, the data suggests. Times, Sunday Times
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
Hospitalization can be hazardous for vulnerable elderly patients.
It was mid-week so things were quiet; couples were lunching at picnic tables and elderly men and women were lounging around in various states of undress.
Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers.
The house's owner, the elderly founder of the local wool and mohair trading warehouse, passed away and left the place to his grandson.
The project also provides bi-weekly rations of bread from local bakeries for elderly pensioners.
We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
And a lot of our people are elderly and a lot of them are uneducated, illiterate.
One of the chauffeurs, an elderly, apple-cheeked man, had been the Forrest coachman. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
The fact that someone else would make better choices than the elderly person does not require the appointment of a guardian or institutionalizing the elderly person.
Children and the elderly are entitled to cheap train tickets.
There are a few unusual skin conditions in the elderly that can cause blistering. The Sun
Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
Objective To evaluate visual impairment by visual function and quality of life assessment in elderly population.
He is keen for a more holistic approach to the way the sick and the elderly end their lives. Times, Sunday Times
Most of them are elderly people coming for balneology treatment, for which they pay EUR 290 on top of the main package of EUR 1 000, said the Manager of Kur-Club, Krasimira Georgieva, as quoted by BGNES. Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
But drugs workers also report an increasing number of elderly folk dabbling in hard drugs such as cocaine for the first time. The Sun
Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems. Archive 2009-12-01
Richard was uneasy about how best to approach his elderly mother.
He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure. BLACK EAGLES
In an age when general staff pensions did not exist the railways might well keep elderly staff on the payroll for nominal duties.
The elderly man is quite energetic.
He remembers her arms on the cold, lifeless body of the elderly master as she sat on the stone floor.
MY elderly father-in-law changed energy supplier in December and went from using electric storage radiators to gas central heating. The Sun
Some couples choose locations that are aerobically challenging or simply inaccessible to elderly or physically challenged guests -- including women in high heels. Judith Johnson: 10 Secrets to Creating the Perfect Wedding Ceremony
I made out an elderly lady, propped up, silvery hair rippling across her shoulders.
An elderly fisherman wrote to a mail order house the following: "Please send me one of those gasoline engines for my boat you show on page 438, and if it's any good, I'll send you a check.
The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Looking surprised, a little boy peers at the elderly woman, who takes the puzzled gaze as a question.
The woman, who is believed to be elderly, was admitted to Macclesfield Hospital after she complained of feeling unwell.
This is especially true in elderly people and for hypnotic drugs.
It was found by a man while he was helping his elderly mother to clear out her belongings after the death of his father. Times, Sunday Times
The elderly Thaumaturge, dressed all in grey samite, lifted Ullanoth's right hand, which had been partially covered by her gown. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The runaway car careered into a bench, hitting an elderly couple.
The company said tests showed mixed results for Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium can cause serious or fatal infections in young children or elderly people.
He was ushered by Benoit, the elderly body-servant, rather grandiloquently called the seneschal, into the ground-floor room known traditionally as the library. Scaramouche
Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady. Brit Wit
Such nonspecific inclusions have been described in the elderly with highly active disease, in alcoholic cirrhosis hepatitis and hepatoma.
The erection of a costly monument in the capital while young people are homeless and the elderly are without proper medical care is an abuse of public money, the party stated.
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
Her grandmother is elderly and infirm.
This is a complicated issue for the elderly because HIV and AIDS are often misdiagnosed in this population, as symptoms often mimic other illnesses.
This affects elderly people and such people who are incontinence sufferers.
Many elderly people feel imprisoned in their own homes.
Most elderly residents were bankrolled by local authorities, offering private-sector operators a steady stream of income from the taxpayer. Southern Cross's incurably flawed business model let down the vulnerable
The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
I see an elderly man gingerly making his way down the incline of his driveway. The Times Literary Supplement
Although many people see frailty as an inevitable consequence of ageing Jerry told Ric that many injuries suffered by the elderly are preventable.
We have very many elderly and frail people that attend day care and some are diabetic. Times, Sunday Times
More than 40 elderly residents living in sheltered accommodation schemes in Wickford benefited from a troop of volunteers who spruced up their homes.
One of the raids was at the home of an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another was at the house of a pensioner who fostered children.
At primary school we had an elderly teacher who smacked us so hard across the palms, he would snap his yard-long ruler in two.
Sheldon, who is a really nice bloke and very fond of children, was pushing an elderly lady in a wheelchair.
He described the results of both his reading of the ethnographical literature and, even more importantly, the surveys he had conducted among the elderly in Sweden.
He phoned elderly Americans and persuaded them to reveal their numbers and then he punched them into a handy machine in his home, which printed the new card.
Community officers working in Warminster are now urging residents to look out for elderly relatives and raise the alarm if they see suspicious callers.
The group can consist either of other elderly people, or special groups for people of all ages with an alcohol problem.
An elderly woman was strewing the floor with French chalk so that the dancing shoes would not slip.
The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
A COUNCIL chief who evicted elderly tenants from bungalows and then moved into one has been suspended on full pay. The Sun
The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
The discovery confirms the accepted theory that type II supernovas are produced when elderly, bloated stars known as red supergiants run out of nuclear fuel and collapse.
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
Each colony insures that every elderly member is included in meaningful activities, taking into account their needs, so that the dignity of their lives is affirmed to the very end.
Charles Booth argued, probably correctly, that old age pensions would encourage children to take in elderly parents.
Earlier this week we reported four violent robberies involving elderly women when thieves tried to snatch handbags.
The bicycles obstructing the way, the unloved and unwashed stair carpet, the large and perplexing stain on the elderly wallpaper.
That elderly gentleman was exceedingly on the jump , as nervous as a man well could be.
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
Fire swept through a multi-storey nursing home in eastern India on Friday morning, killing at least 35 people and trapping many more elderly residents in the smoke-filled building, an official said. Fire kills 20 at Indian nursing home
The security forces were aggressive, pushing forward until an elderly demonstrator suffered a heart attack.
They had stolen her handbag, which held her house keys and address, while she cared for her elderly mum. The Sun
Elderly women score more favorably on measures of mental health and college-aged women report less loneliness if they live with pets rather than alone.
Sure, trust-loving lawyers are now touting the nontax virtues of trusts--protecting assets from creditors, from those who prey on the elderly and from a new spouse if a widow remarries. Married, With Assets
On a recent visit to Arran, I talked to an elderly resident who recalled that during her childhood there were small puffer boats that people could hop on to travel short distances around the coast, rather than travelling overland.
A few hours later, an elderly man wakes his wife up with the aroma wafting from their weathered percolator.
It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process.
Such a curious thing for an established and respected elderly gentleman to do, now that she came to consider it seriously.
The charity exists to meet the needs of elderly people.
Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
It is easy to assume that these new roles lead to strains on the elderly in that: they must adapt to changes in social norms and acceptable behavioral standards.
She does some voluntary work, caring for the elderly, but care for is more commonly used to mean 'like':I don't really care for spicy food.
Medications are powerful, but potentially dangerous in the treatment of multiple diseases in elderly individuals.
Warminster town councillor Les Rose said the closures would hit the elderly hardest.
I can feel my own 'elderly gravida' bump tensing up. Times, Sunday Times
He's 39, hit just .191 last season - when he wasn't missing half the year with an arthritic right knee, because "arthritic" is always a word you want to hear when it comes to elderly outfielders - and is a lousy defender, ranking below-average in UZR at all three outfield spots over his career. Mike Scioscia's tragic illness
The only photograph was of an elderly couple on top of the television, grey-haired and sporting smiles of false teeth.
I probably would have hoped that famine was soon to become a fading memory in the minds of elderly people.
Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes, whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision.
The price of heating and food means many elderly live a cold, lonely and hungry life. The Sun
He rejected the idea that daily alerts would reduce the need to phone an elderly relative. Times, Sunday Times
With reference to the May issue prize letter from Audrey McBain about the use of words like elderly and ageing instead of ‘old’.
Precious little has been heard from the 'unpeople' - including women, children and the elderly - who have been on the receiving end of such killing power.
I believe that the need for saving has grown tremendously over the past century, primarily because the lifespan has lengthened and more medical care for the elderly is available and desired. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Where was the country's main opposition party when the elderly people of Ireland needed a voice?
HIV service delivery systems are modeled on community-based long-term care services designed to meet the needs of the elderly chronically ill.
At that time 'elderly primigravidae' were unusual. Times, Sunday Times
Treatment of the elderly is a particular cause for concern. Times, Sunday Times
It was rather an elderly costume for a bridemaid; but she was determined to dress warmly, and not risk, in muslins and laces, the health which to her now was money, life -- nay, honor. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
He was elderly by combat aircrew standards and his balding head and weathered face singled him out from the others. Bomber
Their absence or replacement by poorly fitting dentures can contribute to malnutrition in the elderly. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
Every year over a million elderly people suffer the pain and inconvenience of broken bones.
It turned out to be an innocent farm truck, its elderly driver left writhing in the dirt. Times, Sunday Times
Costs are spiralling upward because doctors tend to overprescribe drugs, particularly to the elderly, and they tend to prescribe new, expensive drugs when a cheaper alternative is available.
Gardaí believe he was one of the leaders of a group who prey on elderly people living alone in remote, rural parts of the west of Ireland.
Both estimates suggest a significant increase in the numbers of elderly with chronic health problems in the early decades of next century.
In recent years the average hospital stay for elderly patients has decreased.
I recently sold one for 8,000 to an elderly couple who needed to be near the public loos. Times, Sunday Times
Wartime discoveries of acute poverty among elderly people heightened awareness of their propensity to poverty.
Unfortunately, very little data regarding outcomes following penetrating trauma in the elderly exists.
Also, these medications often are poorly tolerated in elderly patients who have multiple comorbidities.
And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.
Most families are in practice extended, with elderly or other kin in the household and other relatives nearby.
Treatment of the elderly is a particular cause for concern. Times, Sunday Times
Elderly people often describe the hard days of the past with examples of how they struggled with inadequate and coarse food.
Elderly patients should not be treated with tertiary amines because of the greater anticholinergic effects of these agents.
Lack of proper recreational facilities for the elderly will be felt more acutely in the coming years.
This is extremely frightening for elderly people.
My mother is elderly and frail and does not have the stamina to pursue this. Times, Sunday Times
In the study addressed yesterday, Vytorin was tested against a placebo in patients with a condition known as aortic stenosis, a calcification of the heart valve that is increasingly common among elderly patients and leads to congestive heart failure and death. More Vytorin Bad News
He moved out of the way as an elderly man came up to the counter carrying several large-print novels. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Curly blond hair and chubbiness is also useful (although this is likely to have more influence on aunts and elderly neighbours than your parents).
In the elderly, antipsychotic medications can cause serious side effects, such as extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia.
Relatives of elderly and disabled people are defrauding councils of millions of pounds by pocketing money meant for carers, the spending watchdog claims. Times, Sunday Times
The elderly like Chinese opera, drama, classical music, and playing mah-jongg.
They run a retirement home for the elderly.
The same electronic system that provides flexibility to care for children or elderly parents at home can function as an electronic leash.
With close friends in their lives,people develop courage and positive attitudes.Teenagers have the moral support to assert their individuality;the elderly approach their advanced years with optimism and an interest in life.
Elderly people were bemused at the temporary closed sign as they turned up to collect their pension money only to find the shop shut.
This study is important in that it adds to the limited armamentarium of studies assessing the effects of exercise in the elderly.
What really galls me is that services for elderly people are woeful - disgraceful in fact - and these are people who have paid taxes all their lives.
One elderly victim used binoculars in the public gallery to see her attacker finally convicted. The Sun
A short, soft knock came on the wooden door, and presently the call of an elderly woman's voice bid her visitor enter.
The relocator: Sabin woman helps the elderly sort, organize and move Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life.
Farmers, huntsmen, village post offices and elderly people trapped in isolated rural communities by the lack of public transport - all are falling victim to the growing urbanisation of our society.
Elderly people easily become socially isolated.
This chipboard was by now, quite elderly and soft.
On the bus on my way home, I was very polite to an elderly gentleman by offering him my side of the seat where he'd be more comfortable.
In the stimulus bill Nancy Pelosi set up a panel or something called comparativeness effectiveness research, what they're doing there with that is they're not comparing effectiveness as well as I and all the physicians will do, they're comparing effectiveness of spending a dollar on one person versus another, which means the elderly are gonna be denied the care to keep them living and keep their health in good shape so they can have a useful, fruitful productive life. Rep. Paul Broun: Health Care Reform, Stimulus Are 'Gonna Kill People By Denying Care'
An unemployed 41-year-old man charged with burgling the home of an elderly Bromley couple will appear at Croydon Crown Court.
SARAJEVO - The United Nations prepared to escort hundreds of women, children and elderly civilians from the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after their evacuation was delayed for weeks, ANC Daily News Briefing
There is a lack of good evidence of effectiveness of safety education for adult pedestrians, specially elderly people.
It looks like a very elderly bouncy castle: wonky, wobbly and full of holes. Times, Sunday Times
Elderly patients have decreased protein binding of AEDs resulting in a higher unbound fraction.
An elderly woman doddered out of a back room with a walker. Archive 2008-11-01
The elderly have more leisure time, they need more spiritual appetite substantiated.
From its humble beginnings as a coconut plantation to a popular playground for the rich in the 1920s to a Mecca for the elderly in the '80s, the "Sun and Fun Capital" outdoes even the queen of reinvention herself, Madonna. Jerry Libbin: Miami Beach Has Found Its Niche
But drugs workers also report an increasing number of elderly folk dabbling in hard drugs such as cocaine for the first time. The Sun

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