Example sentences of "old people [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | Chapman went with Jackson to visit the player 's family at Renton , where he ‘ magnetized the old people with the charm of his personality ’ . |
| 3 | We need above all , however , to approach all old people with the recognition that as individuals they are varied in their strengths and weaknesses , values and attitudes as the rest of us . |
| 4 | Housing conditions and shortages , for example , are likely to be a major source of disadvantage and discomfort to millions of old people to the end of the century and beyond , and one on which individual workers , even managers , have relatively little impact . |
| 5 | What 's also come out very strongly er , in this programme is is that it 's a struggle for a lot of people , both financially , and in terms of juggling time and the multiple demands that particularly women have , in trying to care for young people and old people to the point where women may spend their entire lives between , between twenty and sixty looking after somebody or other . |
| 6 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 7 | Booth ( 1987 ) in a report investigating residential care in Camden emphasised how little priority is given by qualified field workers to developing their practice with old people around the issue of admission to residential homes . |
| 8 | The National Old People 's Welfare Committee , later called Age Concern , sought to promote the welfare of old people throughout the United Kingdom and relieve the conditions which were revealed by the war . |
| 9 | Vulnerable old person This term will be used to distinguish the small number of very frail old people from the majority of competent independent elderly people over 65 . |
| 10 | The kids from the houses up there- ’ she waved her arm in the direction of home — ‘ will come and play on the grass-the old people from the council place will come pottering down and sit on the benches by the flowerbeds . |
| 11 | By contrast , the young ones were able to interest old people in the workings of microwave ovens ; after cooking lessons from the young six or seven old people went out and bought them ! |
| 12 | In particular , concern about the long-run decline in the birth-rate and the recognition that this was the major reason for the growing proportion of old people in the population ( Thane forthcoming ) coincided with a post-war labour shortage , making the elderly a focus of interest in a wider range of policy-making and otherwise influential circles . |
| 13 | First , the proportion of old people in the population is rising fast . |
| 14 | At the same time as the number of old people in the population is rising , several factors are operating that have tended to reduce the ability of the family to cater for the needs of old people , especially their needs for care and companionship . |
| 15 | There will also be , as certainly we can tell , more very old people in the future than in the past , something also clear from table 5.4 . |
| 16 | This point has been made strongly about the Home Help Service , arguably the most crucial support for old people in the community , by Goldberg and Connelly ( 1982 ) , and more recently by the Audit Commission ( 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Thus we can see that an uncertainty exists about formal support for old people in the community which contrasts oddly with the general acceptance of accountability for those in residential care , even in the private sector . |
| 18 | He points out , first , that Bacon and Eltis underestimate the effects of demographic changes on public expenditure — the rise in the proportion of old people in the community , the increased demand for places in higher education , and so on . |
| 19 | More than this , even with earlier memories they rarely made any systematic attempt to gather evidence of later life from childhood memories about grandparents or old people in the neighbourhood . |
| 20 | There are a lot of old people in the parish . ’ |
| 21 | As with the use of acute beds there has been a significant increase in utilisation by older people during the years 1976 — 86 . |
| 22 | Finally , there must be a question about the lack of interest in older people on the part of the creative and recreational professions . |
| 23 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to British Telecom ( BT ) expressing concern about the likely effects on older people of the price rises announced on 1 August ( see Information Circular , September 1991 ) . |
| 24 | Rather than a blessing , retirement becomes a period of crisis , depriving older people of the status and role of work . |
| 25 | All this leads to less activity rather than more , and the counsellor has to try to convince older people of the need for self-action . |
| 26 | Little is known about the attitudes of older people towards the services offered by the acute hospital sector . |
| 27 | The agenda here suggests the need for radical changes to education and leisure , for expansion in outlets in voluntary work and for both economic and social recognition of the vital role played by older people within the family . |
| 28 | People naturally want to retire and it is therefore important to offer opportunities for fulfilment in leisure , education and voluntary activities and to recognise the valuable role played by older people within the family . |
| 29 | the relatively low position of older people within the status hierarchies of medical and social services ; |
| 30 | The most appropriate way of providing health care for older people within the hospital sector remains a point of contention . |