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elderly English

Meaning elderly meaning

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elderly

If a person is elderly, they are old. The hospital had a number of elderly patients who had been there for many years. He was very elderly, but not at all sad and small. This resort is a good choice for the elderly as the area is very flat and there is plenty to see and do nearby.

elderly

(= aged, senior) advanced in years; ('aged' is pronounced as two syllables) aged members of the society elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper senior citizen (= aged) people who are old collectively special arrangements were available for the aged

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Topics elderly topics

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Simple sentences

The police officer on duty sensed an elderly man coming up behind him.
The bus was empty except for one elderly woman.
Mrs. Smith is an elderly lady.
Keep these seats for the elderly.
It is mean of him to deceive an elderly lady.
The blind nurse devoted herself to caring for the elderly.
My parents told me that we should respect the elderly.
She takes care of many elderly people.
It can make some people, especially elderly people and infants, very ill.
An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path.
He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs and suddenly looked up and saw an elderly woman before him.
BMI categories (underweight, overweight or obese) from general reading table are inappropriate for athletes, children, the elderly, and the infirm.
We must be kind to the elderly.
I respect elderly people.
Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.
I met an elderly woman.
I respect the elderly.
For the elderly, wounds take more time to heal.
My parents told me we should respect the elderly.
I gave my seat to an elderly woman.

Movie subtitles

An elderly gentleman.
I suppose she's elderly.
So I filled him full of handsome coachmen, elderly earls. young wives and the two little girls who looked exactly alike.
An elderly husband mustn't leave his young wife alone too long.
And for the elderly gentleman.
It used to be the elderly, and that's sad.
These are the elderly we support. after they are too weak to work. and earn a living.
No, mostly middle-aged or elderly people.
You shouldn't talk about the elderly like that!
I've only an elderly grandmother.
Elderly and almost blind.
Whether or not you murdered a middle-aged widow, you certainly saved the life of an elderly barrister.
Just at sundown, a small group, gathered in silent prayer around the newly-opened grave of the beloved wife of an elderly man.
Some money had been stolen from an elderly neighbor.
She's an elderly lady.
On the contrary, I suggest an elderly gentlemen with perhaps a touch of gout in his right leg.
There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.
Spry as he is, he's a rather elderly gentleman.
An elderly man, mid-50s.
In an elderly sort of way.
Elderly. Yeah.
One of my mother's elderly cousins gave me some beautiful jewelry.
Then why the tale about your elderly cousin?
After all anyone who would bludgeon her elderly aunt can't be all bad.
Yes. There seems to be an elderly who lives alone that isn't feeling well. That elderly is determined to see you.
Where is this elderly?
The elderly that lives alone is Lee Jae Ha?
It's like my dad says, naps are for children, the elderly, and weaklings.
Are you suddenly a baby, an elderly, a weakling?
He could be an elderly doctor.
The elderly man I told you about.
Don't make fun of an elderly woman who means well for you.
So you're going to turn into one of these dim little ladies Who fill hot-Water bottles for elderly relatives?
The babblings of an elderly siren being treated for mental disorders. are hardly evidence. even for a third degree, Lieutenant.
You will ignore the elderly and the children, you will waste your time if you don't.

News and current affairs

In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America's global credit standing.
His proposals would lead, it is said, to the state murdering the elderly.
The real issue is whether societies are willing to provide elderly people with equal access to ever newer and improved medical techniques.
In 2003, his elderly father-in-law was beaten by police agents and forced into internal exile.
It is especially valuable to people with restricted mobility, such as elderly or disabled drivers.
It has been pivotal in almost eliminating poverty among America's elderly.
And the public pension system has provided the elderly with a kind of security--both against inflation and the vagaries of the stock market--that the private market to date simply has not.
That means that many of the elderly and those approaching retirement worry about their standards of living.
By 1995, relative poverty was increasing sharply for young adults, while the opposite trend occurred among the elderly.
Budget limitation appeals not just to the old, but is especially attractive to young people, who worry that they will be made to pay the costs of caring for an increasingly elderly and dependent population.
Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and raise the value-added tax on their medicine and electricity.
An example is Charles Bonnet Syndrome, where visual impairments in the elderly can produce visions of human figures.
From restaurant kitchens to care for the elderly, from harvesting cotton to laboring on building sites, people in rich countries want to consume services that they are no longer willing to provide themselves.
Japan, for example, is starting to experience a huge retirement bulge, implying a sharp reduction in savings as the elderly start to draw down lifetime reserves.
But the money undocumented workers earn goes abroad to build homes, start businesses, and take care of elderly parents throughout Latin America.
America in the 1960's enacted programs to rebuild poor communities, to fight air and water pollution, and to ensure health care for the elderly.
The country's rural and elderly population - like those in other former Soviet countries - appears to prize economic stability and social order over democratic development.
Today, the EU allocates a large part of its public spending to pensions and health care for the elderly, while education suffers from underfunding.
A welfare state that focuses mainly on the elderly, and does not provide sufficient opportunities for younger generations, is not sustainable.
The elderly would thus account for a far greater share of China's population than in other large emerging economies, such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico.
Both Duda and Kukiz complained that too many young Poles were leaving the country, and that their country was becoming an empty land of the elderly - a fact that is obvious to anyone who walks down a Polish street.
Easing restrictions on migration would allow young people from developing countries to expand industrialized economies' diminishing workforces - and generate the taxes needed to pay for care for the elderly.
Cash aid has sometimes replaced food aid in humanitarian crisis situations, and there have been targeted social protection schemes in Zambia, as well as incipient welfare schemes for the elderly in India, South Africa, and Lesotho.
Unlike his neighbors, he opened the border to desperate refugees, mostly women, children, and the elderly.
With China's economy booming, foreign investors flocking, and the country's role in global markets ever more central, the disappearance of this elderly couple hardly caused a break in China's hectic march.
If pensions and governments both prove unable to provide for the elderly, countries across the continent could experience rising social instability - a broader version of the saga playing out in Greece.

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