Example sentences of "[verb] older [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , the lack of education and training of older workers is exacerbated by the unwillingness of government and employers to retrain older people . |
| 2 | First , reminiscence highlights older people 's assets rather than their disabilities . |
| 3 | Fourth , researchers argue that strategies aimed at protecting older workers , although increasing the job security of those who are in employment , may well intensify the problems of those who are unemployed . |
| 4 | The leading companies are reluctant to provide insurance for this age group and those who will include older people in their schemes have very high premiums . |
| 5 | The former suggests that retirement spread through unfettered consumer desire for more leisure , that industrialization progressively excluded older workers but also created the national wealth and political will ( through the establishment of mass democracy ) to support them on state pension schemes , and that increasing personal prosperity led to the individual 's growing ability to save through a private pension . |
| 6 | This underlines the importance of training schemes in which professionals have opportunities to meet older people who are in charge of their lives , who have something to say and who are not being seen simply because they have overwhelming problems . |
| 7 | The Committee also secured the publication of the 1988 households below average income data and these show that seven out of ten lone pensioners have below average incomes ( after the deduction of housing costs ) and that older women outnumber older men in this income group by three to one ( House of Commons Social Security Committee , 1991 , p. xxxix ) . |
| 8 | The British situation is mirrored throughout Europe where there is little evidence of government policy changes to encourage older workers to stay in work . |
| 9 | Sport is no longer the exclusive province of young people , and the Sports Council runs a campaign called ‘ 50 Plus ’ , to encourage older people either to continue to participate in sport , or to start now . |
| 10 | Active steps should be taken to encourage older people to quit smoking ( Vetter et al . |
| 11 | ‘ The aim of the day was to encourage older people to undertake regular health and fitness related activities and opportunities , ’ said from the Sports Resource Team . |
| 12 | This will require an attack on pension inequalities and social policies which stigmatise older people . |
| 13 | Although Gibbons has not said whether he agrees with that analysis , he has talked about ‘ a rotation ’ in which new programmes replace older initiatives . |
| 14 | The organisers will use the day of action to launch Maximising Mobility — a report on the importance of transport and mobility in enabling older people to live fuller lives . |
| 15 | The report focuses on the importance of transport and mobility in enabling older people to fully participate in and contribute to the life of the community and contains recommendations aimed at addressing the mobility needs of older people . |
| 16 | The Age Concern report on shopping , which was produced in 1985 with the help of a group of representatives from major retailers , identified a range of environmental conditions which would be likely to attract older customers into stores . |
| 17 | And we will allow them to attract older students as well . |
| 18 | As the age-structure changed older spectators tended to leave the terraces to take up the increasing amount of seated accommodation ; the ‘ ends ’ were left to ‘ the lads ’ . |
| 19 | They say older cars are hard to adapt , whatever the makers say . |
| 20 | Compulsory retirement places older people in a no-win situation ; they are not allowed to work in order to earn their living , nevertheless , their enforced lack of productivity makes them a ‘ burden ’ , and serves to devalue them . |
| 21 | A recent analysis of such practices in The Lancet concluded that ‘ there seems to be no reason to exclude older women from regular screening for cancer of the cervix . |
| 22 | On the one hand , age-restrictive social policies have been used by the state both to exclude older workers from the labour force and to legitimate that exclusion through the notion of ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 23 | Thus , retirement may be seen as an age discriminatory social process designed to exclude older people en masse from the workforce . |
| 24 | In sum , mass retirement has been invented in twentieth-century society to exclude older people from paid employment at what are arbitrary ages . |
| 25 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 26 | This chapter first reviewed older forms of sociology , including the Chicago School of Urban Sociology . |
| 27 | Almost 75 per cent of those polled feared poverty , while 55 per cent believed that the National Health Service would fail to put sufficient resources into keeping older people fit and healthy . |
| 28 | As a consequence of the belief in the unbalanced ratio , demographers advocated the long-term necessity of keeping older people in the work-force , since the birth-rate was expected to remain low despite a wartime upturn . |
| 29 | If she has older brothers and sisters , then the idea of sharing will be less of a shock for her , although even in these cases children cling to those things they think of as theirs . |
| 30 | The children invited older brothers and sisters from another school to visit the group . |