Example sentences of "which older [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age Concern England receives thousands of enquiries a year about many of the problems which older people face and the changes which they may have to cope with . |
| 2 | In this briefing paper we can only illustrate some of the needs which older people may have . |
| 3 | Where these opportunities are not as good as possible , we have tried to show some of the many ways in which older people can be helped . |
| 4 | Young people frequently dismiss remarks which older people may make about their impending or eventual death . |
| 5 | While profitability remains the key factor in the use of expensive floor space , it would make sense to display the products which older people are likely to buy on the ground floor . |
| 6 | Day care schemes run by voluntary organisations and social services departments , to which older people can go for a few hours daily , are very helpful . |
| 7 | Disengagement is explained as the process by which older people gradually relinquish roles and activity within their society . |
| 8 | Other statistics , for example , show that households with retired heads have fewer domestic amenities of most kinds than younger households ( GHS 1986 : 67 ) ; and there is a serious shortage of sheltered housing at prices which older people can afford ( Tinker 1984 : 86–8 ) . |
| 9 | In fact , as Table 5.9 indicates , the situation in 1980 was very different in regard to two tasks for which older people often need assistance — shopping and cutting toe-nails . |
| 10 | The large concentration of older people living by themselves has tended to divert attention away from the often complex household structures in which older people live . |
| 11 | ( 1987 ) report that a 25-category classification system was required to fully represent the variety of types of household structure in which older people in Great Britain lived . |
| 12 | Despite the availability of statistics describing societal level changes in household formation which have influenced the type of household in which older people live , this still remains the subject of considerable mythology . |
| 13 | Health behaviour in later life is clearly rooted in the social context in which older people live and reflects the influence of such activities at earlier phases in the life cycle . |
| 14 | Two types of behaviour , diet and exercise , dominated the activities proposed as the health promoting behaviour in which older people participated in ( Table 6.6 ) . |
| 15 | The moral decline which older people detected in the 1920s was blamed by some on the new mass entertainment , especially on the " movies " . |
| 16 | The real value of current state pensions has been eroded , whilst means tested support on which older people increasingly rely has similarly suffered cuts in real value . |
| 17 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 18 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |