Sentences with phrase «most of these elderly people»

Most of these elderly people already have home health aides that are paid by the city and the aides should be cooking for them.
Most of the elderly people like to meet their dating partner, by going out for a dinner; instead of having a few drinks, which is a favorite pastime among the younger lot.

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«Low - income elderly people are the most vulnerable group in Hong Kong, given the lack of retirement protection,» he said.
In 2014, Canada's Maclean's Magazine proclaimed him to be one of Canada's 50 most influential people and its most compelling voice for the elderly.
The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve.
Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.
That's not been the reaction of most people toward the Jesuit pope, who seems to evoke physical affection from everyone from children to the elderly.
I saw a deaf man begin to speak in tongues which was astounding and a young girl hear from a dead ear and an elderly catholic lady stand up straight as God ungnarled her arthritic back... those were times of awe... I was 16, 17, 18 — young, naive and I saw miracles, healings, incredible things but most of all hundreds of people come to faith.
That said, what I really, really despise, is the TV Evangelists that would ask for more and more money, and guilt it out of people... and of course, the most vunerable are the elderly or sick shut - ins that often would send their old age pension, and barely eat, thinking that they were doing good... and the TV Evangelists could care less that they were literally taking food money from them.
By the time a Hamilton star is singing to a room full of donors and players in this gilded room, the Posadas have already made multiple aid trips, starting out helping the most at risk people — families, children, the elderly, and those who needed immediate medical attention — before moving on to «Phase 2» of «cleanup, rebuilding, and infusing the economy.»
Actually, most of the chores you mention are also performed by single people or couples without kids (especially the care of elderly parents).
The research literature on Vitamin D clearly shows that daily intakes of 1,000 International Units provide the necessary health benefits for most people (some individuals, like expecting mothers and the elderly, have shown to benefit more effectively with supplement ranging from 1,500 to 2,000 International Units a day).
We only have to imagine ourselves as a newborn — or as helpless as one — to see why responding with sensitivity is one of the most important skills we can cultivate in ourselves, in our children, in the people who care for our elderly, our sick, our disabled, our tiniest, our most vulnerable.
A # 3.7 k tax on a # 400,000 profit (less than 1 % overall) sounds reasonable to me — and the homes of most elderly people in care are typically sold well within three years.
«I have had dozens and dozens of letters from women who are deeply distressed that because they did what most people would think was the right thing to do - look after their families or an elderly relative - they lose out in retirement,» she told the Daily Mail newspaper.
People were left to languish on benefits because work didn't pay, while others were lost in mountains of benefits paperwork — young businesspeople and elderly individuals were the most obvious victims.
Already, 400,000 people die annually worldwide from the effects of climate change, primarily children, elderly and the poor who are most vulnerable to heat waves, drought, flooding and famine.
«Winter temperatures are just uncomfortable for most of us, but they can be harmful and even deadly to the elderly and to other vulnerable people.
It's not true to say that independence would automatically mean a worse deal for the vulnerable in society, and I don't think most people would be more likely to vote for a side of a referendum which says independence for Scotland will punish the disabled or elderly.
While some people were shot dead, others were simply slaughtered; and it is easy to guess who most of the victims were — children, women and the elderly — clearly the most vulnerable.
Although the actual absolute numbers have increased when compared with 2009 (the year for which there are World Health Organization mortality data for most EU countries) due to the growing numbers of elderly people, the rate (age - standardised per 100,000 of the population) of people who die from the disease has declined from 148.3 male and 89.1 female deaths per 100,000 in 2009 to 138.1 deaths and 84.7 per 100,000 predicted for 2014.
James added that attempting to identify a single cause of death does not always capture the reality of the process of dying for most elderly people, as multiple health issues often contribute.
AD is the most common form of dementia responsible for a slow and progressive deterioration of memory and leads to frailty and dependence in elderly people.
In the Saudi outbreak, 65 percent of the 23 people confirmed to have caught the virus died; most were elderly and had other health problems.
Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia in the elderly, affects about 5 % of people over the age of 65.
Heat illness happens most often to people who are exercising or doing physical activity outdoors for long periods of time, to elderly people, and to people taking medications that increase their sensitivity to high temperatures.
Well, thousands of people DIE every year (particularly children and elderly are at most risk) from E. Coli poisoning.
The sporadic form of AD represents the most common cause of dementia in elderly, currently accounting for more than 95 % of all AD cases and affecting nearly 40 million people worldwide.»
Most people who eat a balanced diet receive enough of this vitamin through food, but elderly people and alcoholics may be at risk of deficiency because of an unhealthy diet.
When most people think of osteoporosis, a common image is that of a frail elderly woman, since the ailment is largely considered a feminine disease due to its prominence in senior women.
While many people struggle with body fat for most of their adult lives, I'm sure almost everyone knows an elderly person who wrestles with the opposite problem: they are seriously underweight and they struggle to eat enough and maintain lean body mass.
OA can lead to significant problems with mobility with middle aged and elderly people and is probably the most common cause of disability in elderly people in the developed world.
According to the researchers, despite the well - documented advantages of exercise, most elderly people spend 80 percent of their time in sedentary activities.
This is probably one of the most condescending and disrespectful things you could possibly say to an elderly person.
The physical appearances of the elderly people are of less importance in the senior dating sites like SeniorPeopleMeet.com, as it is natural that the body loses most of its beauty with the progress in time.
But the single elderly people better do some researches on the reputation and the workability of these sites, through the references and the customer reviews; so that they can find out the best site that will provide them the most effective over 50 dating online.
I've met a number of elderly people and most of them shy away from joining the dating sites as they feel that they are too old to find dating partners.
Most of these films, however, focus on elderly people behaving like young people, little more than contemporary non sci - fi takes on «Cocoon».
«Most students have fears and repulsions toward elderly people, because of the misconception of society's attitude towards them.
Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.
Headlines such as, «Trump's Treasury pick excelled at kicking elderly people out of their homes,» belie the facts when the story doesn't explain that most reverse mortgage foreclosures don't displace the borrower.
Social Security makes up more than half of most elderly people's income, so this is no small deal.
Most of the adults we have were rescues, where elderly people had to go into assistant living or they had passed and their family members asked if I would care for their dog when we owned a Pet Shop in FL..
This is especially important to remember for young children, elderly or debilitated people, and people with immune system disorders or undergoing cancer chemotherapy, all of whom are most susceptible to zoonotic diseases.
They are especially good dogs for elderly people, as they tend to focus most of their attention to one person, and tune in to that person's emotions.
The main reasons the Wii was their most successful home console was that it was cheap and the tech was new and available to everyone even elderly people, the Switch is none of that.
In Maroons, a group of three small collage and gouache works on sheet music announce the artist's racial background most explicitly, depicting, for example, West African tribal masks in one and an elderly black woman raising a sword á la Liberty Leading the People in another.
People's homes are also a place where not just children but all of society is vulnerable — especially the very young, the sick, women and the elderly as they are all at home for most of the time.
Ironically, people in cold regions can be most vulnerable to heat waves, because they are not acclimated to extremely hot weather, and because buildings designed for cold climates may not offer protection against extreme heat and high humidity.32 The elderly and those who do not have access to air - conditioning will likely be less resilient in the face of more frequent heat waves.19
It is a sad and tragic fact that many of the elderly people in our society are abused and mistreated at the time when they are most vulnerable.
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