Example sentences of "[adj] services for [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987/88 , English local authorities spent £1.3 billion on personal social services for elderly people . |
| 2 | Our elderly strategy is moving towards trying to equalize , or even out , those big differences of accessibility , because if you live in Wantage , and I live in Oxford , say , we have a totally unequal access to Social Services for elderly people . |
| 3 | She explored protective services for elderly people , advocating a proactive stance , taking the initiative to give the client a taste of a service , on the assumption that saying ‘ no ’ will be the automatic response to something threatening ( Wasser , 1971 ) . |
| 4 | The Health Services and Public Health Act ( 1968 ) Section 45 is that which empowers the local authority to carry out many of the major services for elderly people , home helps , laundry service , meals on wheels , warden services , boarding out , aids and adaptations , and advice , information and social work support . |
| 5 | The WRVS ( Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ) provides a wide range of caring services for elderly people and families in need throughout the UK . |
| 6 | At the SAD conference in Crieff in October 1986 on " Dementia : Planning Innovative Services in the Community " a debate developed between those who saw an overriding need to integrate dementia sufferers with the rest of their community , both at home and within the various services for elderly people and , on the other hand , those who saw a need to provide separate specialist services to cater for the special needs of dementia sufferers , which had been neglected in the past . |
| 7 | Historians such as Richard Smith and David Thomson , however , have shown how enduring and old-fashioned are many twentieth-century patterns of thought and action — such as retirement from the work-force in old age , and the provision of financial and other services for elderly people by the community rather than by kin . |
| 8 | THE National Information Forum is drawing up a directory of hospital-based services for disabled people . |