Example sentences of "[prep] the elderly in " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family . |
| 2 | It also offers a limited number of places for the elderly in the community to attend as day clients . |
| 3 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 4 | SERVICES for the elderly in Suffolk and Essex are threatened by Government reforms that take effect next month , according to council officers and a care provider . |
| 5 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 6 | Their study of quality of care for the elderly in hospital , with specific reference to respite care , is illustrative of these types of surveys . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax made the point that the rundown of long-stay care for the elderly in our health service and the move towards the elderly having the opportunity to go only into private nursing care is to be deprecated . |
| 8 | I am not in favour of long-term institutional care in hospitals , but the balance between the opportunity for decent health care for the elderly in our hospital services and the opportunity for other care has gone much too far . |
| 9 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 10 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 11 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 12 | LUNCHEON clubs for the elderly in Skelton and Redcar want volunteers to take over when students of a Skelton catering course have to give up the running of the service when their training course is cut on May 1 . |
| 13 | Work has begun on a new £800,000 housing scheme for the elderly in Hartlepool . |
| 14 | Police are concerned about an old man who failed to return to the Robert Huggins Home for the Elderly in Acklam , Middlesbrough , after leaving to go shopping on Monday afternoon . |
| 15 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 16 | Message from : At the present time we are 140 members less than we were in 1990 — this is solely due to a shortfall in the number of sponsored groups as several classes for the elderly in sheltered homes were closed due to the cut backs . |
| 17 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
| 18 | When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty . |
| 19 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 20 | Designed originally with the needs of the elderly in mind , those ill with HIV/AIDS at home are also finding them enormously valuable . |
| 21 | Albert Funnel , a child in Brighton in the 1900s , evokes the long shadow of the workhouse over the lives of the elderly in the decades before Old Age Pensions : |
| 22 | Details of the results of treatment of the elderly in clinical trials of the new drugs should therefore have been given to CSM . |
| 23 | Townsend 's thesis is that in four main areas , ‘ the dependency of the elderly in the twentieth century is being manufactured socially ’ . |
| 24 | segregation of the elderly in bungalows … and flats … cuts them off from neighbours other than people of their own age and accentuated their isolation . |
| 25 | The accompanying debate about population problems gave rise to much published discussion and research which reveals both the experiences and societal perceptions of the elderly in this period . |
| 26 | This note challenges this particular thesis that has been developed most clearly in the writings of Peter Townsend , Alan Walker , and Chris Phillipson , and suggests that concentration on the concept of structured dependency has deflected attention away from more progressive and optimistic views of the economic social status of the elderly in modern Britain . |
| 27 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 28 | This branch of medicine owes much to the pioneering efforts of Marjorie Warren who demonstrated that , with proper assessment and rehabilitation , many of the elderly in these chronic sick establishments could be returned to independent living . |
| 29 | However within this age-group there is a rising proportion of those over 75 and even more so of those over 85 , who are projected to make up 12 per cent of the elderly in 2001 , compared with less than 8 per cent in 1983 . |
| 30 | Table 5.2 The very old as a percentage of the elderly in the UK ( 1901–2001 ) |