Example sentences of "aged [num] and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those aged 70 and over are often charged double or three times the standard premium , though providing you are fit and healthy , Barclays , Thomas Cook and Pickfords charge the standard rate . |
| 2 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |
| 3 | GPs must offer an annual health check to all their patients aged 75 and over . |
| 4 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 5 | Over a quarter of the population in East Sussex , the Isle of Wight and Dorset are retired , and more than 10% are aged 75 and over . |
| 6 | The home counties of Bedfordshire , Berkshire and Buckinghamshire have the lowest proportions of retired , with only around 14% of the population of pensionable age , and just 5% aged 75 and over . |
| 7 | The charts below compare the marital status of men and women aged 65+ with that of men and women of all ages , and also the difference in marital status between men and women aged 75 and over . |
| 8 | Households aged 75 and over are more likely to live in unfit homes and lack basic amenities than other household types . |
| 9 | 6% of households headed by a person aged 75 and over lacked basic amenities ( compared to under 2% for younger groups ) . |
| 10 | The General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) for instance found that 47 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone , compared with 28 per cent of those aged 65 to 74 years . |
| 11 | Changes over time also indicate that living alone is on the increase as a feature of old age : the General Household Survey ( OPCS , 1985 ) shows that in 1973 , 40 per cent of those aged 75 and over lived alone ; ten years later the figure was 47 per cent . |
| 12 | GPs must offer an annual health check to all their patients aged 75 and over . |
| 13 | Her tables show that 16 per cent of the households containing a married couple with a partner aged 65–74 in 1971 and 23.5 per cent of married couple households with a partner aged 75 and over in 1971 had dissolved to a lone person household by 1981 . |
| 14 | Millard ( 1988 ) estimates that on any day in 1981 the family doctor was caring for approximately 2 per cent of those aged 75 and over . |
| 15 | With regard to the health care of older people the most salient feature of the new contract is that they will be required to annually invite each patient on their list aged 75 and over to participate in a consultation which should assess the health of the patient . |
| 16 | The inequality between lone men and lone women is greatest among those aged 75 and over . |
| 17 | In the total population ( including those in communal establishments ) the prevalence of severe disability ( OPCS categories 8–10 ) was 107 per 1,000 among men aged 75 and over and 154 among women in the same age group ( Martin , Meltzer and Elliot , 1988 , p. 22 ) . |
| 18 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 19 | The largest percentage increase , however , was recorded by the very elderly — the survivors of the large birth cohorts dating from the early years of this century — with the number of people aged 75 and over up by 46 per cent on their 1971 level . |
| 20 | Mrs Richards designed an assessment prompt list to aid nurses and others involved in screening people aged 75 and over who live in the community . |
| 21 | We will legislate to provide a new 1 per cent incentive for holders of personal pensions aged 30 and over from April 1993 , when the existing incentive ends . |
| 22 | In a survey reported in this week 's journal MORI interviewed 4000 people aged 30 and over in their own homes on behalf of the British Association for Continence Care ( p 832 ) . |
| 23 | 1883 men , 2124 women aged 30 and over . |
| 24 | A random sample of 4007 adults ( 1883 men ) aged 30 and over was interviewed in their own homes at geographically stratified sampling points throughout Great Britain . |
| 25 | In the same year , women aged 30 and over , if already local government electors or married to such electors , were given a vote in general elections . |
| 26 | Fifteen percent of those aged under 5 , 22% of those aged 5–9 , and 41% of those aged 10 and over were seropositive compared with 0% , 5% , and 37% in this study . |
| 27 | By 2001 there will be over one million people aged 85 and over , representing 13% of all elderly people . |
| 28 | Because of the projected increase in the numbers aged 85 and over , ti has been estimated that by 2000 , it will cost the NHS an additional £400 million a year , and more in later years ( Britain in 2010 , The PSI Report , 1991 ) . |
| 29 | The figures below ( Table 1.1 ) show that whereas the total size of the population aged 65 and over will not rise substantially ( it will in fact fall between 1991 and 2001 ) , those aged 85 and over will almost double in number in England and Wales , from just over half a million to almost one million ( an increase of 88 per cent ) . |
| 30 | The provision of statutory services to the elderly has risen since 1948 , but not sufficiently to keep pace with the increasing number of dependants and the decreasing pool of informal carers ( even now only 11 per cent of people aged 85 and over receive meals-on-wheels , 37 per cent a home help ; OPCS , 1985 ) . |