Example sentences of "[noun] among the elderly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith denies that a significantly new ‘ problem ’ of poverty among the elderly emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | And the number of house owners among the elderly is rising : in 1985 only 47 per cent of household heads over 65 were house owners . |
| 3 | She could see Spencer quite clearly , he appeared to be holding court among the elderly distant relatives who had travelled from all parts of the country to be at the funeral . |
| 4 | One result is considerable under-occupation among the elderly . |
| 5 | Just because their lives are no longer structured by employment or education , there is more space for a variety of life patterns among the elderly of any class background . |
| 6 | From time to time cross-infection , such as an outbreak of erysipelas among the elderly men , caused problems . |
| 7 | However , those who see the longevity of disabled people as a threat also ignore other contemporary changes which will affect the future pattern of health among the elderly ( Social Trends 1987 : 136 ) . |
| 8 | Two year follow up of those who survived to leave hospital shows that while there is an increased mortality among the elderly this is entirely due to non-hepatic causes and that once survival is corrected for age there is no difference between the two cohorts , being of the order of 55% at one year and 50% at two years . |
| 9 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 10 | The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched . |
| 11 | Of course not all of the elderly of the future will be relatively affluent , and , to repeat , we need to be alert to inequalities among the elderly — between age cohorts and within them : the cohorts who will be bringing more occupational pensions and owner-occupied houses into old age will also bring in experience of early retirement and early run-down of resources due to unemployment . |
| 12 | Mervyn Kohler , the head of public affairs at Help the Aged , forecast that increased fuel costs would result in even more winter deaths among the elderly , who often turned off their heating because of fears of high bills . |
| 13 | The work focusses on disability among the elderly , service provision for dependent elderly people and inequalities in health and illness . |