Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the elderly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instructions were given for easing the routines in homes and institutions for the elderly . |
| 2 | For example , the local authorities implementing the Griffiths Report on Care in the Community ( 1988 ) are dependent on central government making the resources available to complete the changes from long-stay institutions for the elderly to community care . |
| 3 | The concession for the elderly and disabled will take effect from next January , the region 's transport and roads committee announced … |
| 4 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 5 | At the time women 's social services had over seventy centres including hostels for the homeless and mentally ill , mother and baby homes , provision for the elderly , children 's homes and community homes for difficult teenagers . |
| 6 | They must be careful not to make income support too generous , thus causing the taxpayer to lose out and causing funds to be taken from other provision for the elderly and disabled . |
| 7 | UNDOUBTEDLY a further erosion of the statutory residential provision for the elderly will be the unwelcome outcome of the present consultative document initiated by the South and East Belfast Community Unit of Management . |
| 8 | More Scots than ever before are now living in residential accomodation for the elderly . |
| 9 | Hill Murray has been handling the product , which comprises three healthcare policies for the elderly , since it was launched last June to insurance brokers . |
| 10 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 11 | The agreement , reached on Sept. 30 after weeks of protracted negotiation between the administration and the Democratic-dominated Congress , had aimed to reduce the budget deficit by $40,000 million by increasing excise taxes and reducing benefits , particularly in the Medicare health programmes for the elderly . |
| 12 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |
| 13 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 14 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 15 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 16 | There is a large amount of evidence ( summarized by Grundy , 1986 ) that it continues to be the major source of support for the elderly . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde ( Ecology Generation ) , was promoted to Minister-Delegate responsible for the prevention of technological and natural disasters , while Hélène Dorlhac ( Union for French Democracy ) , Secretary of State for the Family , also took over responsibility for the Elderly , from Théo Braun who left the government . |
| 18 | Many younger old people run clubs for the elderly and help organize meals services . |
| 19 | LUNCHEON clubs for the elderly in Skelton and Redcar want volunteers to take over when students of a Skelton catering course have to give up the running of the service when their training course is cut on May 1 . |
| 20 | For some older people the establishment of groups for the elderly merely emphasizes age segregation . |
| 21 | The encouragement of joint planning at area/regional level has brought together inter-agency groups for the elderly , though only in some areas has this led on to the formation of specialist sub-groups to consider the needs of dementia sufferers . |
| 22 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 23 | The resulting loss of revenue will be recouped with additional spending cuts , possibly from Medicare , the government health programme for the elderly . |
| 24 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 25 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 26 | The idea is to secure peace of mind for the elderly whose greatest worry is fear of attack . |
| 27 | The establishment of specific , graded and realistically achievable goals for the elderly drinker is important , goals which will hopefully result in eventual abstinence . |
| 28 | SHHD BUILDING DESIGN GUIDANCE ON CONTINUING CARE UNITS FOR THE ELDERLY WITH MENTAL DISABILITY |
| 29 | The decision to produce a further supplement for continuing care units for the elderly with mental disability arose out of the recommendations of the Timbury Report which was published in 1978 and which recommended " the provision and management by the health service of continuing care unit accommodation for the elderly confused . " |
| 30 | My hon. Friend will know that the galleries and museums that charge either do not charge or operate substantial concessions for the elderly , for school children and for educational parties . |