Crossword clues for elderly
elderly
- Like geriatric patients
- Getting along
- Golden aged
- Seniors (with "the")
- Rather old
- Well along in years
- Geriatrician's concern, with "the"
- Very senior?
- Retirement home residents (with ''the'')
- Quite old
- No longer burdened with youth
- Mature in years
- Like someone paying a reduced fare, maybe
- Like people with walkers, often
- Like golden-agers
- Gray-haired, perhaps
- Entitled to reduced prices, perhaps
- Eighty-something, e.g
- Crucial voting block, with "the"
- Advanced in age
- Seniors, with "the"
- Getting on in years
- Aged
- Typically active voting group, with "the"
- On in years
- Senior citizens, with "the"
- On in age
- Old tree, leafy on both sides
- Old tree, largely hollow
- Old Red Belly performing without bass
- Old lady hollowed out tree at the front
- Senior church official meets heartless woman
- Not youthful
- Ageing yodeller dropping round, unfortunately
- Aged like a tree?
- Ageing English lord residing at first in cathedral city
- Long in the tooth
- Getting on
- Advanced in years
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
elderly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a young/middle-aged/elderly couple
▪ A young couple with a baby have just moved into the house next door.
frail elderly people
▪ frail elderly people
the elderly population
▪ Should the entire elderly population be regularly screened for this disease?
young/old/elderly etc lady
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
▪ And research must be concentrated on the needs of the very elderly and how to meet them.
▪ The figures for very elderly men are just over six in ten married, and nearly a third widowed.
▪ Women who have never married are over-represented among the very elderly.
▪ There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women, especially widows.
▪ She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do.
▪ The institutional population, as Chapter 2 illustrated, is a very elderly population.
▪ Secondly, very elderly women are poorer than young ones.
▪ The third vulnerable group of the population are the very elderly with only a state pension.
■ NOUN
client
▪ An example of a social work interaction with an elderly client is given in the following case example of Mr Foskett.
▪ Donald M.. Bickerstaff, 38, is accused of cheating elderly clients and banks of millions of dollars.
▪ They can also help to make exercise opportunities available to their elderly clients by encouraging local recreation facilities to provide special classes.
▪ At least an hour should be allowed to conduct an interview with a vulnerable elderly client, in order to begin an assessment.
▪ This particularly assists those elderly clients who may be resentful at times that they appear to need help.
▪ For help with drawing up or amending a will, there are solicitors who specialise in advising elderly clients.
▪ Unless this attention is given, practitioners will be unwittingly reinforcing the widespread depressed level of desire found in elderly clients.
▪ This involves understanding the perspective of the elderly client, of the carers and how the caring relationship developed.
couple
▪ The elderly couple sitting in chairs on either side of the fireplace rose to their feet as we entered.
▪ In 1952, the family rented an 800-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment that the elderly couple still call home.
▪ Why should those living alone or elderly couples be paying as high rates as large wage-earning families?
▪ An elderly couple is silently eating chicken and mashed potatoes at a table by the window.
▪ As she opened the gate, some people came out of the front door - an elderly couple with Susan behind them.
▪ The other man to die was Brian Roberson, 36, who stabbed to death an elderly couple in 1986.
▪ An elderly couple were leaning over their garden gate.
▪ The clients included secretaries, elderly couples, marketing managers.
lady
▪ We were sharing a table with an elderly lady, a Mrs Harvey.
▪ He had been able to charm more than a few elderly ladies in his time.
▪ There was another worried elderly lady on 20 December 1884.
▪ Like all elderly ladies, however, she needs polite attention.
▪ You see, it needed more strength than an elderly lady or a boy could have.
▪ I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs.
▪ But elderly ladies make me feel uncomfortable and our small talk petered out.
▪ The first was an elderly lady with severe swelling of the eyelids and around the mouth.
man
▪ There was a commotion at the door and a tall elderly man entered.
▪ An elderly man is walking slowly and painfully close to the wall, using it as support.
▪ By the fire in the centre of this primeval setting stood an elderly man and a dozen boys.
▪ He was an elderly man dressed in an ancient broadcloth suit and polished shoes.
▪ An elderly man, who was walking his pet, collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler.
▪ Inside the funeral program was a black-and-white photograph of the gnarled hands of an elderly man.
▪ The condition usually affects middle aged and elderly men.
▪ An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help.
parent
▪ Only ten refer - usually more briefly - to their elderly parents, and only eight to their own ageing.
▪ The same electronic system that provides flexibility to care for children or elderly parents at home can function as an electronic leash.
▪ If you find this happening to your elderly parent, try to help her to reorganise her eating habits.
▪ People are becoming increasingly faced with having some responsibility for the care of their elderly parents or relatives.
▪ A great many people love their elderly Parent or aunt sufficiently to want to look after them.
▪ Anytime / anyplace work can be ideal for those needing to care for children or elderly parents.
▪ Ianthe was the only child of elderly parents, who seemed to be a whole generation removed from those of her contemporaries.
▪ It was awkward having two elderly parents.
patient
▪ It is scandalous that elderly patients should be treated in that way.
▪ We need to learn more about what we can do for the elderly patient.
▪ These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops.
▪ Then she was hired to work at the hospital, sterilizing surgical instruments and assisting elderly patients.
▪ Age Concern believes that convalescent facilities must be available to all elderly patients who require them.
▪ Casei. i An elderly patient who has been vomiting is admitted to the hospital because of dehydration.
▪ However, it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services.
▪ By 1948, however, Cosin was pointing out that the idea that most elderly patients were untreatable was a misconception.
people
▪ That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people.
▪ A lot of people use them, families with young children and elderly people who all need to get to the shops.
▪ Some elderly people entering private care do so using there own financial resources.
▪ In fact elderly people are less likely to be attacked.
▪ They did, in fact, take in a small number of elderly people.
▪ Hughes looks at comprehensive assessment of elderly people and their carers.
▪ This chapter seeks to explore these matters in some depth, for they are critical to the understanding of elderly people.
person
▪ Frequently a crisis is precipitated by some sudden change in health or behaviour, of the elderly person or a carer.
▪ Recurrent pale loss of consciousness in an elderly person suggests this diagnosis.
▪ In 1991 it is estimated that the young elderly represent 56% of all elderly persons, and further proportionate falls are anticipated.
▪ As a result, the likelihood that an elderly person wound up in a nursing home decreased.
▪ This can sometimes be sensed in elderly persons who are approaching the end.
▪ In many cases this care can continue with adjustments in the amount of support until the elderly person dies.
▪ However, there is also a strong, independent effect of the type of household in which the elderly person lives.
population
▪ In addition, the very old will form an increasingly large element of the total elderly population.
▪ Another fast growing category is the indigent elderly population in nursing homes.
▪ The ageing of the elderly population itself is now of particular significance.
▪ Current projections anticipate: Between 1991 and 2001 the 75+ age group will grow from 44% to 48% of the elderly population.
▪ At present, only some 5 percent of the elderly population live in institutions.
▪ The institutional population, as Chapter 2 illustrated, is a very elderly population.
▪ Without such a preventive drive, the cost will rise dramatically with the growth of the very elderly population.
▪ These and other factors combined to give the elderly population a new and high profile in post-war public debate and social research.
relative
▪ He says he's angry, everyone has elderly relatives.
▪ Active adults had to take care of both their elderly relatives and their children.
▪ When families place elderly relatives into residential care, a similar feeling of guilt is often apparent.
▪ Project 2: The impact of elderly relatives in the household.
▪ They always had to share with other people, our elderly relatives.
▪ Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives.
▪ And then they couldn't be on their own because they had the elderly relatives to care for.
▪ It also examines how caring for children or elderly relatives or taking part-time work can affect the level of your pension.
resident
▪ She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff.
▪ Polreath, David, elderly resident of Lanrean.
▪ Perhaps local authorities should thankfully accept this solution and turn their attention to the needs of non-dementing elderly residents and community services.
▪ The children were encouraged to talk to the elderly residents about their own childhoods and life experiences.
▪ Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes, whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision.
▪ One authority supports elderly residents solely in voluntary establishments, whereas the other uses a combination of private and voluntary provision.
▪ Parvis, elderly resident in the village of Lanrean.
woman
▪ The night before, a well-dressed elderly woman reeled towards him clutching a half-eaten burger and threw up all over his instrument.
▪ And there, at a corner table, sitting with an elderly woman and a younger man, was the legendary caddie.
▪ The attack also killed two elderly women bystanders and injured 10 other people.
▪ He went in, and found an elderly woman lying on the floor.
▪ Aspirin was also used by the elderly woman in the first case.
▪ Replace it with a picture of an elderly woman in a wheelchair desiring relief from chronic pain.
▪ There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women, especially widows.
▪ Then, he looked up and saw an elderly woman in a dark fur coat leaving the elevator.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A few decades ago, the average cruise ship passenger was elderly, affluent, and retired. Not anymore.
▪ A group of elderly ladies sat drinking coffee in the cafeteria.
▪ An elderly Englishwoman was seated next to me on the plane.
▪ Some elderly residents cited concerns over crime levels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An elderly couple is silently eating chicken and mashed potatoes at a table by the window.
▪ He's quite plump and I suppose quite elderly, but he has a wonderful mind.
▪ Nor was he really all that elderly.
▪ The elderly people in my constituency worry about their financial predicament.
▪ The group interviewed 14 elderly homeowners who approached the nonprofit organization for help with loans.
▪ The party members attending the session here were mostly middle-aged or elderly California residents.
▪ Their legacy from the poor law was a stock of homes, for the elderly and disabled, that were ex-workhouses.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elderly
Elderly \Eld"er*ly\, a. Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
elderly
a. old; having lived for relatively many years n. 1 an elderly person 2 (qualifier: the elderly) older people as a whole
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "elderly".
An elderly family friend had abused her when she was six, and she had been indecently assaulted in a Gloucester park at the age of thirteen.
When Ace spotted the old cabin he saw an elderly man about to enter it, his arms full of firewood.
Bundesgrenzschutz a force of West German riot police who guard airports, embassies and the border and an elderly Englishman in a curious nautical uniform worn by the British Frontier Service, which acts as guides for ail British army patrols on land, air and river.
On his way back, at the Albergo La Luna, in Venice, he met an elderly Russian lady in whose company he spent most of his time there.
No elderly, overweight, unkempt and accented Polish Jew, long-retired from the snack bar business and needle trade, had ever managed an aperitif in the establishment, let alone membership.
He also made certain that the falchion was loose in the sheaththe broad, thick, heavy blade was centuries older than the elderly arquebus, but cold steel was at least always dependable, if well honed and hard-swung.
An elderly man answered the door and, when Setisia asked for Astell, requested her name.
The elderly woman seemed to be astonished at such a name, but the Lambertini gave no explanation.
She was watching an elderly Chinese couple helping each other up the steps into the vault when Mr Axt, leaning over the counter, signalled her.
An elderly mouselike man who was drinking at the bar beside him coughed apologetically and edged bashfully nearer.
As the girl, by whose beauty I was struck, did not understand the game, I offered her a seat by the fire, asking her to grant me the honour of keeping her company, whereupon the elderly woman who had brought her began to laugh, and said I should have some difficulty in getting her niece to talk about anything, adding, in a polite manner, that she hoped I would be lenient with her as she had only just left a convent.
An elderly couple, it chanced, had been walking behind Bibbs and Mary for the last block or so, and passed ahead during the removal of the soot.
Her former neighbor was still in a detention home for elderly offenders, undergoing psychological assessment to determine if he was fit to stand trial for his part in those long-ago deaths of Maggie Birk and his own newborn grandchild.
With these words I made my way out of the hall, and on turning my head round I saw that the two elderly men were keeping the young blockhead back.
All day spent with books has a rather exhausting effect on the mind, and he used to enjoy the fresh air sweeping up the dark Brooklyn streets, meditating some thought that had sprung from his reading, while Bock sniffed and padded along in the manner of an elderly dog at night.