Sentences with phrase «more elderly people»

More elderly people are working later and later in life.
Thanks to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, we have far more elderly people in our prisons than ever before.
Partial retirement would enable more elderly people to support themselves and continue contributing, and reduce the cost of pension provision during a demographic transition.
With more and more elderly people refusing to lead a boring lonely life the popularity of senior dating crowd has rapidly increased.
I've heard a few comments over the years that were along the same lines (as in, «I couldn't wait to ditch girdles, stockings and petticoats and don't know why you'd want to wear them nowadays»), but more often older folks seem genuinely touched that someone of a later generation is keeping the fashions of their era alive, which is how I'm sure more elderly people feel when they see you, looking so gorgeously, classically attired, too, my sweet friend.
Doctors call the situation where people take many drugs «polypharmacy», a state of affairs that is becoming increasingly common in part because we have more elderly people and also a rising number of people are being diagnosed with multiple health conditions.
When we compare the rates for 2014, when there are more elderly people now than there were in 1988, we have avoided a major rise in mortality rates, with over 250,000 deaths avoided this year,» said Prof La Vecchia.
Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.

Not exact matches

For instance, more than 50 people employed by a medical assistance agency in Anchorage, Alaska, took part in a conspiracy to bilk Medicaid out of millions of dollars by filing bogus time sheets for services not provided to elderly Medicaid beneficiaries.
That combination of a lot more people in general, and a far heavier concentration of the elderly — who consume the vast bulk of medical services from hip replacements to angioplasties — will drive demand for doctors far higher.
What's interesting to note is that many of these arrests are of people committing the same crime over and over — 40 % of repeat elderly offenders have committed crimes six times or more — signifying a conscious decision to go to prison, says Patrick Hansen, managing director of Custom Products.
«I was thinking of people who had bad knees or arthritis or were elderly and couldn't get down on the ground any more,» says DiMaggio.
That makes inflation even more painful for seniors, since 22 percent of elderly married couples and about 47 percent of elderly unmarried people count on Social Security benefits for 90 percent or more of their income.
According to cops, the group used a similar tactic to con more than 60 elderly people in the city's Chinese neighborhoods and managed to steal over $ 1.8 million in cash and over half a million dollars in jewelry.
An elderly person will receive a phone call, often late at night when they are more likely to be confused.
More details: Salmonella can cause serious and potentially fatal infections in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems.The pistachios, distributed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, can be identified by a 13 - digit lot code number on the lower back or bottom panel of the package.
Other benefits are more socioeconomic, such as parking assistance, a reduction in labor costs, fuel conservation, and the ability to move the elderly and people with disabilities around.
Considering Japan's aging population (people over 60 constitute more than a quarter of the population), the political landscape has turned into one in which political candidates focus solely on the elderly demographic.
The net worth of households headed by people 44 and younger has dropped more over the past decade than the net worth of middle - aged and elderly households, according to the Federal Reserve.
Participants also demanded a more safe transit for all LGBTQ people, women, youth and elderly.
It tracked the lives of more than 400 elderly people, to see the effects that retirement had on their health.
A Christian care provider is urging the Church to do what it can to help elderly people in their homes,... More
I care for the elderly and have also seen this when people die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had died before them, than any need to be told God was there... people with faith KNOW He is
Young people, elderly people, more young people than elderly people, people of all nationalities.
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.
Perhaps if those who are innocent (children, people who do good things, the elderly) will have good things happen to them and will die peacefully, while those who are criminals (murderers, rapists, molesters, thieves, etc) have really bad things happen to them and die tortuous deaths: would this make more sense to you?
More than a quarter (27 percent) of the doctors said they would kill an elderly person «with medical grounds for suffering but in the absence of severe physical or psychiatric disease.»
Even more startling, 18 percent disclosed that they could «conceive of» euthanizing an elderly person who was simply «tired of living, without medical grounds for suffering.»
(12) This trend has been found among the elderly as well; (13) persons in lower - income households also watch considerably more television — an additional half - hour a day in the fall of 1976 — than the average for all individuals.
While the question of what to do with information about harm done to a child or an elderly person is important, it is the myriad of more mundane questions such as these that are more likely to have an effect on the church's day - to - day ministry.
There are over thirteen million elderly citizens in Ukraine and more than eight million people with disabilities.
A salmonella outbreak that killed two elderly people in NSW has now hit a Belconnen aged care centre, with the main provider, the Illawarra Retirement Trust (IRT), confirming two more cases in Canberra.
The elderly people of Palm Springs were understandably delighted with the carts, and it wasn't long before their enthusiasm was shared by many of their able - bodied juniors who went around explaining that that way they could play more golf in a day.
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).
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People in rural locations volunteered more for organisations working with the elderly, health and safety, the environment, animals, local community work, hobbies and recreation.
The report published by the committee, called Revenue and Customs: Dealing with the tax obligations of older people, says that the elderly are poorly served by HMRC and that over 2 million are paying more tax on their savings than they need to.
Many people, including the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups rely heavily on buses to support them in living more independent lives.
For more than a month now, cases of Legionnaires» — a form of pneumonia especially dangerous for the elderly and for people with underlying health issues — have been reported throughout a section of the South Bronx, the city's poorest neighborhood.
I got a mailer from Pedro that told me Gustavo was planning to pull the plug on elderly sick people and that he will make sure they pay more for their prescriptions.
He said he also supports assisted living for the elderly and trying to keep them in more personal settings and not in nursing homes as well as youth programs that help give young people guidance and give resources and assistance to their families.
Jeremy Hunt wants GPs to spend more time undertaking preventive work with the growing number of elderly people, whose health needs are driving unprecedented demand on all NHS services.
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.
By identifying why skin immunity declines in old age, a UCL - led research team has found that an anti-inflammatory pill could help make vaccines more effective for elderly people.
They are more likely to infect us as we age, so nearly all elderly people carry them.
Poor health literacy is a particular problem for elderly, ethnic minority, and socially disadvantaged people, all of whom are more likely to have chronic kidney disease.
In addition, elderly people tend to take more than one drug at the same time, which multiplies the chances of suffering from adverse effects due to potential drug - drug interactions.
Across the various age groups, elderly people received caregiving typically no more than 1.5 hours daily, on average, compared with six hours for young children.
But if an elderly person has stored a negative memory, he or she is more likely to have trouble — compared with the average young adult — preventing it from popping up to bother him or her later.
The influenza virus kills 20,000 to 40,000 mostly elderly people each year in the United States, and a bad flu season can cost more than $ 12 billion in lost productivity, medical care, and drugs.
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