Example sentences of "[adj] older people " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , during the nineteenth century , there was briefly a sharply rising proportion of widowed older people living With relatives , this was above all in the cotton and pottery towns , where married women factory workers were exceptionally common . |
| 2 | Why else is the care of frail , dependent older people in hospitals and residential care so frequently a disgrace ? |
| 3 | Legal safeguards are necessary to protect their money and property and a way should be found to provide security of tenure for dependent older people in residential care . |
| 4 | It is therefore wrong to assume that there is a widespread move away from the family care of dependent older people . |
| 5 | Caring for dependent older people can , in any case , be a daunting task , particularly when problems of mental confusion and incontinence arise . |
| 6 | There is a clearly perceptible change of attitude by the public and the people themselves to the relatively affluent and healthy newly retired : the Jollies Jet-Setting Oldies with Lots of Loot ) and the Woopies ( Well-Off Older People ) . |
| 7 | Rather , it refers to the ‘ Woopies ’ — Well-Off Older People — who are in their middle 50s , or at pre- or just retirement age . |
| 8 | The most probable takers are likely to be in the category : under 45 ( under 40 for women ) , high flyer , mobile worker in the sense of wanting to change jobs at some stage and well-off older people who are not covered by company arrangements . |
| 9 | They are the first published documents from which we can glean personal details about ordinary older people in significant numbers . |
| 10 | Perhaps the fullest set of early portraits of ordinary older people as individuals is provided by a Sheffield survey of 1919 . |
| 11 | Such groups can lead to valuable exchanges of feelings and knowledge between the generations ; many focus on particular interests , hobbies and pursuits , and where appropriate older people should be encouraged to join , and even take a lead in their running and organization . |
| 12 | The overall aim of the book is to help with developing activities which meet the needs and wishes of individual older people . |
| 13 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 14 | Fourthly , the comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments of individual older people have a key role in the overall evaluation of service provision and in planning for future development . |
| 15 | Many children live a long way from their grandparents , so relationships with non-related older people need to be encouraged . |
| 16 | The book includes consideration of health promotion in later life ; the relationship of World Health Organisation targets to the care of older adults ; and the specific needs of ethnic minority older people and of frail , vulnerable older people . |
| 17 | Ageist attitudes ensure that caring for dependent and vulnerable older people is regarded as a low prestige , low priority enterprise by both health professionals and social workers . |
| 18 | The preponderance of women among poor older people is , of course , partly due to the larger number of women than men in the elderly population as a whole . |
| 19 | First , there is the absence of any official recognition that poverty is greater among disabled than non-disabled older people . |
| 20 | The clearest evidence for this is the dearth of people keen to work with frail older people . |
| 21 | It can not be denied that we need more resources to improve the quality of life of very frail older people . |
| 22 | In general older people and women identified more problems than men . |
| 23 | For example , there is the restricted access to cut-price supermarket shopping that many disabled older people suffer from . |
| 24 | The campaigning or action group of committed older people may not be what many people expect from the counselling process , preferring acceptance and contentment rather than possible militancy as the outcome of help and support . |
| 25 | Sadly , the time comes when fit , able-bodied older people begin to lose their health and strength . |
| 26 | Single older people are more prone to suffer from a lack of amenities and occupy unfit dwellings than larger elderly households . |
| 27 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 28 | Very occasionally there are recollections of helping other older people in the neighbourhood . |
| 29 | There were four main characteristics which distinguished the early retired from other older people . |
| 30 | Six main categories have been suggested by local older people 's groups for discussion . |