Example sentences of "elderly people have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all elderly people have close relatives they might live with . |
| 2 | A significant number of elderly people have a low standard of living . |
| 3 | It was clear to everyone that most of the patients taking the new drug would be over 65 , and that elderly people have greater difficulty in eliminating drugs from their bodies than younger ones . |
| 4 | However , some elderly people have gone to live in private developments without properly investigating all the extra costs involved . |
| 5 | Many elderly people have a wide range of interests , maintain them — if only through reading — right on into old age , and still enjoy the cut and thrust of discussion and debate ; but we have to accept the fact that for some , the main topics of conversation will be their own and other people 's health , past reminiscences , and family matters . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , most elderly people have to suffer a considerable drop in their income after retirement , and careful planning and budgeting is required to maintain a reasonable standard of living . |
| 7 | A classic example of this is the need some elderly people have to talk about death — often their own death in particular , even to the point of wanting to discuss very freely the kind of arrangements they would like to be made for their funeral : how it should be conducted , what hymns should be chosen , and who should be invited to it and to the family gathering afterwards . |
| 8 | Many elderly people have visual problems , which are often treated with eyedrops . |
| 9 | Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control . |
| 10 | It is nonetheless clear that many valuable initiatives in the care of frail elderly people have arisen from the voluntary sector and few would seriously dispute a model of partnership between voluntary and statutory endeavour . |
| 11 | Some elderly people have been through a divorce leaving a residue of ambivalent feelings and some social isolation ( Hunt , 1978 , Table 12:8:1 ) . |
| 12 | In this chapter some of the important matters relevant to an understanding of family work with elderly people have been discussed . |
| 13 | The Area boards which have set up multidisciplinary teams to consider the care of elderly people have focused on information gathering , producing policy advice on multidisciplinary problems and future needs ( Birrell and Williamson , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways . |
| 15 | With the overall decline in fertility elderly people have fewer children than in previous generations ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 4 ) , and will be turning to a wider range of friends , relatives and neighbours for help and support . |
| 16 | The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies . |
| 17 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 18 | Living conditions for elderly people have worsened , says Help the Aged |
| 19 | There are various possible answers : The world of 1993 is different from that of 1971 ; the numbers of disabled elderly people have soared ; the divorce rate has rocketed ; or , more conveniently , we could expect nothing else given the governments we have had . |
| 20 | Indeed as many as one-third of all elderly people have no surviving children ( parker , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Substantial changes in the provision of long term care for elderly people have taken place over the past decade . |
| 22 | The greater absolute numbers of elderly people have been absorbed by the growing private sector despite a simultaneous collapse of long term provision in the NHS , and this has been widely attributed to the impact of the central government funding system for private residential care . |
| 23 | As a result , the unions say , many elderly people have had to turn to the private sector and pay for domestic care out of their own pockets . |
| 24 | Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia . |
| 25 | In addition , the research will assess the way in which the economic expectations of elderly people have changed over the twentieth century . |
| 26 | ( Presenter ) Many elderly people have paid into pensions etc for years , is n't it their right to have all the benefits they 're entitled to ? |
| 27 | The report , Cold Comfort , which is due to be published in February , shows that almost one in four elderly people have given up basic necessities like food and clothing in order to stay warm . |
| 28 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 29 | Looks horrendous , but bear in mind these elderly people have just answered a sixteen page postal questionnaire with no help . |