Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the elderly " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concession for the elderly and disabled will take effect from next January , the region 's transport and roads committee announced … |
| 2 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 3 | At the time women 's social services had over seventy centres including hostels for the homeless and mentally ill , mother and baby homes , provision for the elderly , children 's homes and community homes for difficult teenagers . |
| 4 | They must be careful not to make income support too generous , thus causing the taxpayer to lose out and causing funds to be taken from other provision for the elderly and disabled . |
| 5 | UNDOUBTEDLY a further erosion of the statutory residential provision for the elderly will be the unwelcome outcome of the present consultative document initiated by the South and East Belfast Community Unit of Management . |
| 6 | More Scots than ever before are now living in residential accomodation for the elderly . |
| 7 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |
| 8 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 9 | It had argued that adequate pension support for the elderly would encourage them to retire and thus increase younger workers ' employment prospects . |
| 10 | Shanas ( 1979 ) , in her review of American data on family support for the elderly , notes that women are two or three times more likely than men to say that no one helped them during a period of illness . |
| 11 | There is a large amount of evidence ( summarized by Grundy , 1986 ) that it continues to be the major source of support for the elderly . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State for the Environment , Brice Lalonde ( Ecology Generation ) , was promoted to Minister-Delegate responsible for the prevention of technological and natural disasters , while Hélène Dorlhac ( Union for French Democracy ) , Secretary of State for the Family , also took over responsibility for the Elderly , from Théo Braun who left the government . |
| 13 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 14 | The resulting loss of revenue will be recouped with additional spending cuts , possibly from Medicare , the government health programme for the elderly . |
| 15 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 16 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 17 | The idea is to secure peace of mind for the elderly whose greatest worry is fear of attack . |
| 18 | The agency brief is believed to have stressed the need to educate potential consumers about the costs of healthcare for the elderly which is not always covered by the Government or conventional insurance policies . |
| 19 | He opened a new housing complex for the elderly , but with none of the pomp and formality normally associated with the job . |
| 20 | In ancient Greece , the cult of youth and beauty , and the reverence for the elderly Homeric sage , created an ambivalence which has typified attitudes towards older people throughout history . |
| 21 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 22 | In 1953 , the British National Conference on Social Work warned of the problems of abrupt retirement , while throughout the decade old people 's welfare committees acted to find work for the elderly . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher tried to respond to social critics by emphasizing the government 's caring image in help for the elderly and programmes for schools . |
| 24 | ‘ To tell you the truth , towards the end I was getting bored stiff because there was no help for the elderly . ’ |
| 25 | Biliary endoprosthesis insertion for choledocholithiasis is an important alternative means of establishing drainage in selected cases , and is probably the optimum method of management for the elderly and or debilitated patients with previous cholecystectomy . |
| 26 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 27 | Motion three eight four , telephone assistance for the elderly G M B Scotland to move . |
| 28 | ‘ They 'll put me in a home for the elderly . |
| 29 | Joan realised Bewey 's greater potential after watching a TV documentary about a Lincolnshire home for the elderly which used dog-stroking to soothe people . |
| 30 | The London Borough of Richmond , which ran the house as a home for the elderly , raised funds for an exemplary restoration programme . |